It never fails. To write the intro in Almost Christian, I went back to school on Spiderman and Venom with Mike Lovaglio (youth pastor, high school teacher, and comic book expert), who saw an early draft of *AC* that didn’t get the symbiote business quite right. To describe a football game in Texas in the middle of the book, I found the original article in Sports Illustrated, dug up NPR interviews with the key players, and did follow up research a year later to see how things turned out. And to cite *Back to the Future* in chapter 4, I downloaded the script, re-watched the movie, and for awhile even had a footnote about the origin of “jigowatts” until Oxford decided it was extraneous (it was).
So, imagine my dismay to read this on Josh Tinley’s blog.
*Sigh.* He’s right, of course.
So it only seems fair to suggest that, for a pristine take on spiritual dimensions of pop culture, you buy his book instead: Kneeling in the End Zone: Spiritual Lessons from the World of Sports.
It’s all good. 