Peter Boumgarden
Peter Boumgarden teaches strategy and organization at Washington University in St. Louis.
Christian humanism in a technocratic world
Alan Jacobs's biography of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and C.S. Lewis
by Peter Boumgarden
February 14, 2019
American Decalogue
Jenna Weissman Joselit reveals how the Ten Commandments have shaped U.S. law and identity.
by Peter Boumgarden
December 15, 2017
Purity, consent, and other lenses on sexual ethics
Sex is complicated. So is Christian reflection on it.
by Peter Boumgarden
October 2, 2016
Last month, I spent some time at the Sundance Film Festival. In a recent post, I noted the difference between marketing films to Christians and the possibility of film as a transformative space in the life of a Christian. Instead of imagining Christians as a set audience whose worldview we don’t want to disturb, I wonder if we could use Christianity’s specific theological language to enliven our understanding of film. Could Christianity’s theological lens illuminate elements of film that other cultural perspectives miss? Perhaps the best example of this possibility that I saw at Sundance came from watching the Justin Kelly film I am Michael.
February 11, 2015
2014 has been described as the year that Hollywood found faith. But if the first-ever panel on faith and film at the Sundance Film Festival is any indication, the discovery of theological depth is still quite a ways off.
February 2, 2015
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