John M. Bruce is an associate professor of political science at the University of Mississippi. He specializes in politics and religion.

In his review of Iron Man 3 in The New Yorker (subscription required for full version), critic Anthony Lane also explores the relationship between the film’s violence and the bombing in Boston.

Gerard Wegemer is a professor of literature at the University of Dallas and founding director of the Center for Thomas More Studies at the Catholic college. He is the author of several books on Thomas More, the 16th-century English statesman who was executed by Henry VIII for refusing to assent to his break with the papacy over […]

Read The New York Times’ review of Iron Man 3.

Sylvia Barack Fishman is a professor of contemporary Jewish life at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, which focuses on women in contemporary Judaism. She is the author of numerous books, including Jewish Life and American Culture (SUNY Series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s) and The Way Into the Varieties […]

Collin Garbarino, a blogger who often writes about religion and popular culture, wrote a positive review of Iron Man 3 titled “Iron Man Grows Up,” in which he sees hero Tony Stark as more mature and appealing. Garbarino also penned a defense of the superhero genre in 2012, arguing that it represents a useful mythology that, unlike the ancients, […]

The Association of Welcoming & Affirming Baptists (AWAB) is a group of congregations, organizations and individual Baptists that support the full inclusion of LGBTQ people in the Baptist faith.

Sister Mary E. Bendyna is executive director and senior research associate for the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is an expert on the Catholic Church and religion and politics.

The Rev. Thomas O’Hara is the elected provincial superior of the United States Province of Priests and Brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He oversees the work and welfare of more than 500 priests, brothers and seminarians in the U.S. Province. He can comment on issues of Catholics and politics, especially in old-line Catholic […]