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Joel Mayward

Joel Mayward is a pastor, writer, and film critic. He is the author of three books, including Jesus Goes to the Movies: The Youth Ministry Film Guide. You can follow him on Twitter @joelmayward.

Pop Psalms: Talking Heads' “Once in a Lifetime”

Joel Mayward

Sufjan Stevens and Postreligious Faith

Joel Mayward

HAIM’s Spiritual Rhythms

Joel Mayward

Aporia: Sufjan Stevens’ Coronavirus Soundtrack

Joel Mayward

Miss Anthropocene: Grimes’ Pop Apocalypse

Joel Mayward

Sack Lunch Bunch: Gallows Humor for Kids

Joel Mayward

Fleabag’s Fourth-Wall Confessions

Joel Mayward

Father of the Bride (of Christ?)

Joel Mayward

The Alien Parables of Strange Planet

Joel Mayward

The God’s Eye View of Minding the Gap

Joel Mayward

Fyre and FOMO

Joel Mayward

In Apostle, You Are What You Worship

Joel Mayward

Disenchantment’s Luci: Our Latest Screen Demon

Joel Mayward

Hints of Habakkuk in Chvrches’ Love Is Dead

Joel Mayward

Netflix Clunkers and a Theology of Disappointment

Joel Mayward

Sufjan Stevens and the Gift of Christmas Kitsch

Joel Mayward

Columbus and the Architecture of Worship

Joel Mayward

ABBA meets Amos on Arcade Fire’s Everything Now

Joel Mayward

The Cosmic Glory of Sufjan Stevens' Planetarium

Joel Mayward

What About The Bonhoeffer Option?

Joel Mayward

Tasting Heaven in The Great British Baking Show

Joel Mayward

The Suffocating Sadness of Manchester by the Sea

Joel Mayward

Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, and Policing Public Grief

Joel Mayward


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