Friday, September 30 2011
Thrice: Major/Minor
Inevitably, many Thrice diehards have openly craved a return to the band's rougher roots. Basically, cutting the bullshit and getting back to basics.
Wednesday, September 14 2011
OMG, You Wrote Your Own Bible? ‘The Good Book: A Humanist Bible’ by A. C. Grayling
Like the 'real' Bible, The Good Book is an eclectic and contradictory mix, containing much that really is very good, but also some that’s bad and ugly, and quite a lot that’s unbearably dull.
Thursday, August 25 2011
Believers Keep on Believin’: Vera Farmiga Envisions a Higher Ground
Oscar-nominated actress Vera Farmiga rips a page from the Ida Lupino playbook and directs herself to a funny, moving performance in one of the year's most surprising -- and unmissable -- debut features. Farmiga and co-star Dagmara Domincyzk talk with PopMatters about the experience...
Tuesday, June 21 2011
Finding ‘Eden’: Can Games be Spiritual Experiences?
Child of Eden's gameplay is very much in the nature of religious ritual, as much as a passion play or holy communion.
Sunday, June 12 2011
‘The Quotable Hitchens’ Gives Us the Best of Hitchens, Arranged in a Convenient Dictionary Format
Love him or hate him, Christopher Hitchens nearly always has something interesting to say. The Quotable Hitchens presents some of his pithiest remarks, arranged alphabetically by topic.
Tuesday, April 26 2011
‘Revolutionary Deists’: Fanatics for a Reason
The story of deism proves that America has never been, in an absolute sense, a Christian nation.
Wednesday, September 22 2010
Tribal Spirituality in ‘Populous: The Beginning’
An underappreciated strategy title from 1998, Bullfrog's third Populous game is thick with references to religion and spirituality.
Friday, August 6 2010
Would a ‘Society Without God’ Be Hell on Earth? Or Would It Be Like Scandinavia?
"Without religion, society is doomed." Discuss.
Tuesday, February 9 2010
Azrael #1-3
Scorsese-inspired and Petraeus-infused, Fabian Nicieza and Ramon Bachs' new Azrael is an incendiary powder keg, commenting one everything from the War on Terror to its title character's relevance to the very purpose of faith.
Thursday, December 10 2009
Santa Claus: Super Hero Icon and Religious Figure
Kris Kringle has flesh-and-blood status and is a religious secular figure. He is Superman, Peter Parker, Bruce Wayne, Gandalf the White, James Bond, Dr. Who and James T. Kirk all rolled into one.
