David Feltmate We should not be looking at this moment as somehow unique. In fact, it contains far too many similarities with past eras.
Tag Archives: pop culture
Sobchak Nation: The Big Lebowski Turns 20 and Explains Twitter
Daniel Anderson We are all Walter now.
Religion in Hip-Hop, Part 1: Exploring the Religious History of Kendrick Lamar
L. Benjamin Rolsky Lamar’s words may indeed be best understood through a method that foregrounds uses or functionality over content, but to read these words is to build an archive for millennial religiosity and spirituality in the twenty-first century through a nearly ubiquitous art form and commercial industry—hip-hop.
Annabelle Creation: A Creation Story for Catholic Secret Keeping?
Nicole Symmonds All of this because evil is not destroyed at its root.
Living with a Zombie Apocalypse: 7 Questions for Greg Garrett
Greg Garrett The sacred entered into this book in powerful ways, but my favorite moment comes in the final chapter in the book, which basically asks, “Is a zombie apocalypse a bad thing or a good thing?”
When Do Moviegoers Become Pilgrims?
S. Brent Plate The thing is, pilgrimage and tourism are not really that far apart.
Remembering Prince
Mark Hulsether If music or group religious rituals can change the world—and I think at times they can—then the world changed during this performance.
Get Out: The Ending We Needed
Nicole Symmonds Peele grants viewers, especially black ones, the kind of reprieve we’ve been hoping for as citizens of a world hell-bent on ensuring that our lived experience is one of horror and not happy endings.
On Nostalgia, Myth, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ben Brazil To a significant extent, the conversation about Star Wars hinges on the same question: don’t we want something new? Put another way, differing opinions about The Force Awakens tend to hinge on how the reviewer judges the film’s balance of nostalgia and newness, of (cultural) history and change.