Have you read the old Jack Chick evangelism tract Somebody Goofed? BoingBoing today is talking about an amazing animated version of the tract:

The animated version was created in 1997 by Syd Garon and Rodney Ascher; the BoingBoing post has some additional links and commentary. The animation is weirdly compelling and a bit creepy in a [...]

Earlier this week, I had the chance to go hear George Murphy speak at Calvin College about a topic I can never resist: science fiction. His lecture was titled “Real Faith and Fictional Worlds,” and in it, Murphy talked about the increasing respectability of science fiction, the way that religion is (and often isn’t) portrayed [...]

Some in the religious press are pointing out an obvious trend of major motion pictures with a decidedly pro-life bent. I certainly saw that in the ribald Knocked Up (nominated for the dirtiest movie with a good, final message), but hadn’t considered it in other movies, like Children of Men. Of course, the incredible success [...]

If you follow Barbara Nicolosi’s Church of the Masses blog, you know that she’s lately gotten hooked on the new Battlestar Galactica television show. She recently wrote a great post wrestling with whether or not BSG is a good show—in the moral sense. (Caution—her post contains major spoilers for the show.) I love the way [...]

That’s a quote from Phil Vischer, creator of VeggieTales, which opened their second movie this weekend (ranked ninth with $4.4 mil).
He has a very compelling interview in Christianity Today you should check out. Here’s the crux of this thoughts on the Christian message in movies:
Some Christian films have failed flat-out because their plot was their [...]

Jeff Overstreet posts some insights into the spiritual appeal of Frankenstein, Gollum, Darth Vader, and other cinematic monsters. We don’t want our movie monsters to be entirely villainous—we want to see a spark of conscience and the ever-so-slight possibility of redemption:
God makes it pretty clear in the scriptures: All have sinned and fall short. He [...]

Just watched an extremely compelling trailer for a documentary called Expelled.

You can watch additional trailers here.
It seems he’s not trying to prove a point either way about origin issues, but rather drawing attention to the lack of free speech in scientific academia.
Interested in seeing it? I know I am. Has anyone in academia [...]

Beliefnet has an interview with Denzel Washington about his Christian faith. It’s easy to be skeptical of “celebrity Christians,” but Washington sounds like the real deal—it’s interesting to read about how seriously his Christianity influences his choices about the films, scripts, and roles he takes on. The First Things blog has some good commentary and [...]

Relevant Magazine has an interesting essay asking whether the horror genre can be used to explore serious spiritual themes. The article focuses on Scott Derrickson, the horror filmmaker and Christian who directed The Exorcism of Emily Rose and who is working on a remake of Hitchcock’s The Birds. (You may recall that Emily Rose received [...]

Thanks to CT for pointing out a new trend of spoofing the Nooma video series by Rob Bell (who was featured last week in Time magazine).
I’ve seen some of the videos and have enjoyed them. But their hip video production and Bell’s cool intensity were just screaming to be parodied.
Kudos to these folks [...]