Post Tagged 'Entertainment/Culture'

April 01, 2013

No Man Is An Island

In the current Acton Commentary, I take a look at what I call a “modern-day Robinson Crusoe,” the survivalist Richard Proenneke of “Alone in the Wilderness” fame. But as I also note in the piece, there are some other instances of this classic shipwrecked literary device, including the TV show Lost. Continue Reading...

March 18, 2013

Protestants and the Roman Pontiff

Carl Trueman of Westminster Seminary makes some salient points about why Protestants should pay any attention at all to the doings in Vatican City (HT: Justin Taylor): Some may wonder what the point of reflecting on Rome is for a Protestant. Continue Reading...

January 16, 2013

Commentary: Hollywood 2012: What Messages are the Movies Sending Us?

“If I had cash to spend on promoting the values and ideas and policies that I believed were best for this country, you can bet that I would be out finding talented directors, writers, and producers who shared those values,” writes R.J. Continue Reading...

January 14, 2013

Review: Rev. Gregory Jensen on ‘Hero’s Journey’

Update: Rev. Jensen has posted part 2 of his review. You can read it here. Rev. Gregory Jensen, who writes at the Koinonia blog, recently reviewed Rev. Robert Sirico and Jeff Sandefer’s new book A Field Guide for the Hero’s Journey. Continue Reading...

August 30, 2012

Abel the Righteous Entrepreneur

Check out this video, which is interesting on a number of levels (HT: James R. Otteson): Hazony points to some really important ideas in this short video. In many ways the culture war, so to speak, really comes down to a clash of worldviews about what work is and ought to be. Continue Reading...

August 24, 2012

The Corruptions of Power: Gossip of the Highest Sort

In his magnificent reflection on the nature of art, Real Presences, polymath George Steiner invites us to make a thought experiment: What if we lived in a city where all talk about art, mere talk about art, was prohibited? Continue Reading...

May 25, 2012

New Journal of Markets & Morality Website

Today marks the official launch of the new and improved website for the Journal of Markets & Morality. In addition to the new design, we also have included a search feature whereby anyone who wants can search back issues for keywords, authors, names, and so on. Continue Reading...

May 15, 2012

It’s Okay as Long as the Kids Wear Helmets

I haven’t been able to work out all the specifics (perhaps some of my colleagues would be better suited for that), but somehow I feel like this video of the Casteller festival in Spain is a metaphor for the Eurozone. Continue Reading...

April 11, 2012

How Religion Is Portrayed In Video Games

Danny O’Dwyer of Gamespot has created an interesting video on religion in video games. As a self-described atheist, he examines the reasons why video games “haven’t reached the point where Islam can be portrayed without a suicide bomb.” Continue Reading...

February 24, 2012

Journal of Markets & Morality 14.2

The newest edition of the Journal of Markets & Morality is now available online to subscribers. This issue of the journal (14.2) is actually a theme issue on Modern Christian Social Thought. Continue Reading...

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