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Should Conservatives Protest LGBT Hallmark Movies?

December 11, 2019 by Randal

The Hallmark Channel has a reputation for producing movies that social conservatives find wholesome. Not surprisingly, these movies get satirized by cynical Hollywood. Consider, for example, this 2017 satire courtesy of Saturday Night Live: (Yes, it is true that SNL is in New York while the Hallmark Channel is actually headquartered in, ahem, Studio City, California. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: culture war, ethics, fundamentalism, LGBT, popular culture, sexual ethics

The Best Movies of 2016 You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

January 1, 2017 by Randal

One of the many purposes of this blog is to raise awareness about valuable cultural products (books and movies, mostly) which are worthy of your attention. I see more than one hundred movies every year. Most are soon forgotten. Many others are worthwhile but you already know about them since they have big budgets and are […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: movies, popular culture, review, zombie

TWU Today Archives Part 4: A Plea Against Evangelical Kitsch

May 28, 2016 by Randal

My journey through the TWU Today Newspaper archives continues as I consider another article I wrote waaay back in ninety-six.  This one must have been good because as I recall, it prompted my friend Steve to write an indignant letter to the editor in reply. The article includes standard buzzwords of the evangelical lexicon in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: bumper stickers, evangelicalism, evangelism, kitsch, popular culture

What hath zombies to do with theology? An interview with Clay Morgan

September 27, 2013 by Randal

In this interview I sit down with culture savvy monster aficionado Clay Morgan. Clay is a professor, blogger, podcaster, and author of the book Undead: Revived, Resuscitated, Reborn (Abingdon Press, 2012). You can visit Clay online at http://claywrites.com/ * * * RR: Clay, thanks for joining us. When I first saw the title of your […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: afterlife, Clay Morgan, popular culture, resurrection, theology, vampires, zombies

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