Ted Turnau

Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Eleanor Nickel’s Christian Popular Culture does a great service for both creators and consumers. She looks at a variety of popular cultural works and asks a single profound question: Does this work represent its characters as complex, nuanced persons created in God’s image, or does it take a denigrating shortcut by using racist or sexist stereotypes and clichés. She is careful to give credit where credit is due but is not shy about calling creators to account when their works fall short. She is a first-rate literary scholar and has a keen eye for detail. My hope is that her work as a critic might help Christian popular culture mature as an art form.”

Such a Mind as This

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Christians like to say that they think ‘biblically,’ but what does that mean? . . . Taking multiple deep dives into a variety of types of Old Testament literature, . . . Smith draws a picture of what it means to think as a people in covenant relationship with their Lord. Smith has done a huge service by exploring what the Old Testament has to teach us about what it means to let the Bible guide our thinking and living, how to love God with all our minds.”