Recent Publications
Books
Catching Light: The Search For God in the Movies. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
Popular Religion and the Self-Help Tradition in Early American Culture. Westport, CT:Greenwood Press, 1999.
Popular Religion and the Self-Help Tradition in Modern American Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Electronic Media, and Popular Culture. (Editor and co-author), Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.
Articles (2000- )
“Mapping Light: Toward a Taxonomy of Narrative Modes in Contemporary Religious Film,” submitted for consideration, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadelphia , November, 2005.
“The Aesthetics of Pain: Cinematic Representation of Suffering and Sacrifice in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ,” Conference on Sacred Text/Sacred Image, Central Florida University, Orlando, Florida, April 3-5, 2005.
"Beyond the Bridge: Life and Grace in 'It's a Wonderful Life,'" Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought (December, 2004): 13-17.
”For Mary's Sake,” Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought (May 2003): 24.
“Lost Life: The Hours as Novel and Film,” Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought (March 2003): 21 ff.
“Cotton Mather on Wealth and Charity.” Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought (June-July 2002): 10-15.
“The Sound of the Color of Love: Meaning and Morality in Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue,” International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, September 13-15, 2002, York St. John College, York, England .
“Signs and Wonders,” review of Signs, Books and Culture (November/December 2002): 7.
“Artificial Creation,” review of A.I., Books and Culture (September/October 2001): 6-7.
“From Home to Nowhere: Radical Evil and Human Dereliction in Film.” Christianity and the Arts (Winter 2000): 22-25.
“Lights, Camera, Jesus” Christianity Today (May 22, 2000): 58-63.
“The Beauty of Our Stupid Little Lives,” review of American Beauty , Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought ( April 2000): 19-21.
Greed Gulch,” Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought ( March 2000): 4-5.
“Some Unexpected Something Else,” review of Magnolia, Mars Hill Review (January 2000): 147-150. |
