Tag: Popular culture

In the news this week, a scrap of papyrus suggesting that Jesus had a wife turns out to be not a forgery. And Stephen Colbert,

David L, Henson finds Jimmy Fallon and the new incarnation of the Tonight Show to be an inspiration for how we do church. He started

Ryan Bell, writing from his Patheos blog “Year Without God”, on the low-budget Christian movie “God is Not Dead”, which finished a surprising 5th at

The growing adoption of social media affects even the way we deal with death, asserts an article in the NY Times.   The article examines

Miguel Angel Escobar short Episcopal Relief and Development blog entry revisited the response by a few celebrities who offered their thoughts and prayers to the

The BBC 2 comedy show “Rev.” is coming back for a third season and it will air during Eastertide. There will be some changes to

As America becomes more pluralistic, organized religion is not the only institution that is changing. Alcoholics Anonymous, influenced by co-founder Bill Wilson’s religious experience in

Dick Staub at Religion News Service shares the theological truths he gleaned from this year’s Sundance Film Festival: