How can pop culture make our faith better?

The Discovering God in Pop Culture series invites readers to see faith and popular culture in conversation. Through areas of pop culture like film, music, television, literature, and more, each volume explores how Christian faith is enriched and made better by engagement with pop culture. In each book, readers will discover the implicit and explicit theological content present within a pop culture topic.

Rather than dismissing pop culture or accepting it uncritically, the series helps readers find the ways that it can help them to imagine and think about Christian belief and practice in new and creative ways. Accessible and theologically grounded, the series is ideal for students, ministry leaders, book clubs, and curious readers who want to connect faith with their everyday cultural experiences.

Praise for the Series

"Horror art exists to confront what we deny, and Be Afraid fundamentally understands that. Kutter Callaway neither sanitizes nor exploits his subject, but rather treats it with moral and emotional seriousness. By engaging horror films as a medium of truth, this book offers a rare and thoughtful conversation between theology and terror, between faith and dread. Be Afraid insists that when faced honestly, fear can be the beginning of wisdom rather than an enemy to avoid."

—Scott Derrickson, director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister, and The Black Phone