Culture Corner — July 2008
The Gospel According to Bruce Springsteen: Rock and Redemption, from Asbury Park to MagicJeffrey B. SymynkywiczWestminster John Knox Press, 2008, 197 pp., $16.95, www.wjkbooks.comJohnny Cash and the Great Ame...
Faith, Film & Philosophy: Big Ideas on the Big Screen
Faith, Film and Philosophy: Big Ideas on the Big ScreenR. Douglas Geivett and James S. Speiegel, editorsIVP Academic, 2007, 311 pp., $26, www.academic.ivpress.comIn Faith, Film and Philosophy, Dallas Willard an...
A Roundup of New Books and Ideas
Caspian coming: May 16 is opening day for Prince Caspian, the second film based on C.S. Lewis’ mega-popular Narnia series. Here are two books you can browse to get up to speed on Caspian and Narnia: Liter...
Ministry to Generation X
This article originally appeared in print journal July/Aug. 1996.Disenfranchised citizens scattered across the former Soviet Union. Millions living in the Muslim nations. Military personnel. Photojournalists. T...
Youth Culture Update: Antichrist Superstar?
This article first appeared in print journal May/June 1997.During the past three decades of the rock ‘n' roll era, a handful of artists and bands have been able to balance controversy and fame, mass hosti...
Focus on Music – The Raunchy-Rock controversy
This article first appeared in the print journal Fall 1990.Focus on Music - The Raunchy-Rock controversyEverybody's arguing about what to do with rock, rap, and heavy metal lyrics that glorify sex, violence, dr...
An Alternative Bridge over the Parent-Teen Culture Gap
This article first appeared in the May/June 1996 print journal.An Alternative Bridge Over the Parent-Teen Culture GapGo to a seminary and tell the registrar you want to prepare for overseas missionary...
A Bid to Reclaim American Youth from the Media Monster
This article originally appeared in the print journal Spring 1995.Normally a mild-mannered professor of communications, arts and sciences at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Quentin Schultze becomes an...
Culture Corner
Don’t let the abstract and unwieldy title scare you away. Biblical scholars Jeffrey L. Staley and Richard Walsh have done us all a great service in Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination (WJK). The...