Reviews
Reviews of Books, Movies and Music
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Review: When Did We See You Naked?
When Did We See You Naked? Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse, edited by Jayme R. Reaves, David Tombs and Rocío Figueroa (London: SCM Press, 2021). In recent years, the #MeToo movement and its counterpart #ChurchToo have helped to… Continue reading
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Review: Transgressive Devotion
In Natalie Wigg-Stevenson’s Transgressive Devotion: Theology as Performance Art, the author attempts to pray in public, but to do so in a way that will shock its readers into seeing and constituting reality differently. She writes as a performance theologian,… Continue reading
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The Work of Mourning
Pastoral Reflections on Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). In his beautiful series of reflections on the deaths of his friends and contemporaries (figures such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Sarah Kofman), Jacques Derrida writes… Continue reading
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Reflections on “Moonlight”
Moonlight is a film that is filled with grace, but it is not easily translatable into words. Words do not come easily within the film either. There is no breakthrough moment that somehow makes sense of all the pain that… Continue reading
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Dear White People and Black Liberal Aspirations
*Spoilers Below Justin Simien’s film Dear White People, is a smart, funny, satire (with a handful of surprising twists along the way) that complicates black twenty-somethings’ negotiation of blackness at a predominately white institution of higher education. Aesthetically the film… Continue reading
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The Film Her: Forget About A.I.–Are Women Ever Subjects?
Before the upcoming Academy Awards in March, I’m going to offer some observations about Spike Jonze’s hit movie Her, which is nominated for five Oscars (Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, and Best Production Design).… Continue reading
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Dancing Under the Gallows: A PSA for “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life”
“So the people who were sitting in the audience, we were transported to a different time…the time before, when we lived in a normal civil life, civilized well, and hoping and being convinced that the war will soon finish and… Continue reading
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Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City” is Good Theology
Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City” spent a good six months spinning inside the CD player of my old school Toyota Corolla. I wasn’t sophisticated enough to learn of it myself: I first heard about it from the blogger Ta-Nehesi… Continue reading
