vol. 9, num. 6 :: 2010.03.19 — 2010.04.01
It carries the release of confession, finding out someone enjoys the same guilty pleasures you do, whether a reality show, a pop princess or the latest sugary sweet film treat. What is it about popular art that grabs the attention of even the most discerning intellectual palette?
A tour of timeless themes that pop up in the most unpredictable places.
Examining the notion of popular culture in a segregated society.
On putting pop culture back into the hands of the populace.
On the results of a steady diet from the industrial entertainment system.
Can food, music and paintings all come in the same zany flavors?
On the higher purpose of pop culture debate.
Welcome to the longest reality show ever.
A review of Journey to the Common Good by Walter Brueggemann.
On reading the Bible with Johnny Cash during Lent.
What happens when "the world" enters your sub-culture?
Two philosophy colleagues debate the value of high and low culture for the Christian student.
Stories about what TV can teach us…and how TV lies to us.
A collection of reviews that aims “to find that which salves our wounds in popular culture wherever we can and share that salve with you, the reader, whenever possible.”
Rather than standing back and seeing what we have to say about a film, song, music video or album, it is our hope to step further into the media and experience what it has to say about our lives, this world and the reality behind it all.
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
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