Tag: Entertainment & Pop Culture

This past weekend I attended the Spocon, Spokane’s science fiction and fantasy convention. Nearly every decent-sized city has at least one, such as MisCon for the Missoula and RisCon for the Tri-Cities.

What isn’t there an app for, nowadays? Tony Jones  — author, blogger, and “theologian-in-residence” at Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis — has developed an iPhone app called "Ordain Thyself."

Back in in 1993, Snoop Dogg scored a huge hit with the hip-hop anthem “What’s My Name?” Announcing his conversion to Rastafarianism on Monday, the rapper unveiled a new answer to that lyrical question.

A hotel in the United Kingdom has replaced in-room Gideon Bibles with the soft-porn best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey.
The change was made earlier this month in all 40 guest rooms at the Damson Dene Hotel in the Lake District of England.

Every year around this time, I wistfully think that at some point in my life, I might want to attend Comic-Con, the extravaganza of all things geek, from comics and graphic novels to television, movies, and beyond. There are presentations, panels, exhibit halls, and costumes, costumes everywhere!

The lecture slated for tomorrow, "Film as Theology: Finding Meaning and the Sacred in Cinema" has been canceled.

Matthew Rindge, assistant professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University, was going to speak at Temple Beth Shalom

Fantasy also has a tradition within Christian culture. George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien explore faith themes in their imaginative worlds.