Michael S. Poteet is a teaching elder (ordained minister) in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a freelance writer-researcher and wordsmith. His most recent publication is the youth study guide for Half Truths (Abingdon Press). Follow him on Twitter (@WriterMPoteet).
Great authors of fiction set in alternate worlds: Murray Leinster… Harry Turtledove… and Charlotte Brontë. Next month, Sotheby’s London will put on the auction block a manuscript the future author of Jane Eyre (1847) penned while…
Attention, all Waldo-watchers! Keep your eyes peeled in the direction of your local movie theater! MGM has purchased film rights to the iconic, bespectacled, candy-striped wanderer created by British illustrator Martin Handford in 1987. The…
If you really enjoy reading, every day is Book Lovers’ Day; but tomorrow, the first Saturday in November, is, at least by someone’s reckoning, a day set aside to celebrate the joys of reading for pleasure. To…
Halloween is over, but, on the Christian calendar, today is special, too. Since the ninth century, western Christians have observed November 1 as All Saints’ Day (or “All Hallows’ Day,” making October 31 “All Hallows’…
“It’s the most theological movie ever made.” That was the surprising statement a minister friend made to me a few Halloweens ago. Honestly, I’d never stopped to wonder what film might claim that title, but…
The day before Halloween is, unfortunately, an excuse to make mischief (or worse) in some places. The only mischief-makers you’ll find here are accomplished storytellers, interested only in playing pranks on our imagination… The Twilight…
(You can find Part 1 here) Paul’s admonitions to the Corinthians offered a valuable starting point as I thought about whether and how Christians can celebrate Halloween. Like modern American culture, the culture of first-century Corinth…
With Halloween just around the corner… that cold, gloomy, silent, lonely corner… wait, what are you doing? No! No! Don’t go around that corner! Ahem. Halloween’s less than a week away, and The Sci-Fi Christian…
I first realized some Christians have a problem with Halloween when I wanted to go trick-or-treating dressed as the Devil. I don’t remember exactly what year that was. It had to have been later than…
Ultimate Spider-Man #1-#3 (Nov.-Dec. 2011). Brian Michael Bendis, writer. Sara Pichelli, artist. “Should it be like this?” In Part 1, I argued that we need to get to know Miles Morales as we would get…
