Media, Religion, and Vegas

Currently, this page is a portal to my thoughts on the mediation of Christianity in the media saturated culture of Las Vegas. Here you’ll find short essays that address this topic as a whole or that break the situation down into its constituent parts:

• Mediation of Christianity
• Christianity within media saturated culture
• Media saturated culture
• Media saturation in Las Vegas
• Mediation of Christianity in Las Vegas

I will do my best to address this issues by applying thoughts of renown philosophers and theorists (i.e. McLuhan, Derrida, Baudrillard…) and some less recognized contributors to the Media Studies field (i.e. Gitlin, Seabrook…).

By applying these theories and perspective to the Church’s situation here in Las Vegas, I hope to bring the great minds of Media Studies into conversation with the thoughts of our contemporary theologians (i.e. N.T. Wright, Stanley Hauerwas, William Cavenaugh…).

I bring these two fields to a common table of discourse at the great risk of misrepresenting the values of thinkers at opposing dialectical extremes. It is not my intent to disrespect the Word of God or to preach at the nihilist. My goal in these essays is to craft works of re-interpretive reconciliation, where the truth of philosophy and theory is refocused in light of the life and work of Jesus Christ.

(Note: If you have essays of your own that would be suitable additions to this section please leave me a comment, and I will contact you.)