Today, many Christians—especially in the Roman Catholic, Anglo-Episcopalian, and Lutheran traditions, but also others—will remember the Italian friar Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226). An itinerant preacher and the founder of monastic orders for men and (with…
Comic book superheroes are, by definition, better seen than described. Not even the best-chosen words can replicate the bright colors, bold lines, and action-packed panels of a costumed crusader’s latest monthly adventure. No text, however…
What is Geek Grab Bag? It’s a collection of odds and ends found throughout the week from the Internet. Send in your submissions to be featured in future issues of the column to max@thescifichristian.com Those…
Superman and Batman are the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of superheroes: two great tastes that taste great together. From the days of World’s Finest in the 1940s through Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness’ widely acclaimed…
With Man of Steel doing superheroic business at the box office and Superman in the public eye celebrating his 75th birthday, it’s a great moment for DC Comics to launch a new Superman book. Written…
If seeing Man of Steel made you want to learn more about its central character, you could not ask for a better introduction than Glen Weldon’s breezy new biography of this 75-year-old icon of American…
Ben and Matt review Man of Steel
The SFC’s Mike saw Man of Steel and offers these opening night reactions. (You can read Part 1 here.) Zod Man Out Michael Shannon has some impressive moments as General Zod—he conveys anger at his banishment…
The SFC’s Mike saw Man of Steel and offers these opening night reactions. The cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly promises the issue, in its package about Superman’s seventy-fifth anniversary, will address the topic of “Hollywood’s…
I didn’t read Super Boys. I devoured it. I tore through Brad Ricca’s engrossing new biography of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the co-creators of Superman, as though I’d never read anything about these two…
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