Evangelical Christian Media and Culture

Links to Materials Cited by Page in the Book

The following organizations and people are cited in Understanding Evangelical Media. Refer to the book's cited pages to see the context for each source. This page covers items of interest from the book's introduction, first chapter, and conclusion which discuss media, culture and evangelicalism. Quentin Schultze and Robert H. Woods co-authored the introductory chapter on: "Getting the Conversation Going About Media and Culture." The chapter also includes articles by Terry Mattingly, Elizabeth W. McLaughlin, William Romanowski, Phyllis Alsdurf, and Michael Jindra.

"Evangelical"
Wikipedia Entry

The Holy Land Experience (p. 15)

"Christian Theme Park Opens Amid Controversy"
(p. 15)
CNN

"Bono: Grace Over Karma” (p. 19)
Christianity Today

Transcript of Bono’s acceptance speech for the NAACP Chairman’s Award. (p. 19)
Independent Bloggers

Westboro Baptist Church Home Page (p. 23, explicit)

"Cicero" (p.27)
Wikipedia Entry

Links to Additional Online Perspectives

These links include a wide range of academic, religious, and secular views of evangelical media, from satirical criticism to enthusiastic application.

Academic Articles & Research

Barna—Net-based Faith

"Survey of Public Participation of the Arts"
National Endowment for the Arts

Commentary & Critics

Atheist Media Blog

"Hey There, Lonelygirl15—Prison Fellowship"
Break Point

"Why Media Studies Should Pay More Attention to Christian Media..."
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins

Culture Wars
Institute of Ideas

"Earning the Right to be Heard"
The Falcon, Seattle Pacific University

"Polemics in Cyberspace"
Sightings, University of Chicago

"Comment: Andrew Sullivan: Society is dead, we have retreated into the iWorld"
The Times Online

E-Media Tidbits (explicit)
Poynter Online
Explicit

Christian Propaganda (explicit)

News Reports

"An Evangelical Manifesto Criticizes Politics of Faith"
CNN Politics

related: "Culture War" Wikipedia Entry

"Blogger Gives Dark Secrets the First-Class Treatment"
USA Today

"Study: 25% of Americans Have No One to Confide In"
USA Today

"Americans Will Devote Half their Lives to Forms of Media Next Year"
USA TODAY

Producers & Publications

"September 2007: Gospel Meets Media"
MB Herald

The Other Journal

Satire

The McPassion
A short comedy directed by Benjamin Hershleder and written by Rik Swartzwelder

Posters for the Emerging Free-for-All
spurgeon.org

Further Reading

Pop Goes the Church
by Tim Stevens