Ted Turnau MDiv, PhD

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Author | Speaker | Chair of Arts, Culture, and Literature — Anglo-American University in Prague

Ted Turnau (M.Div., Ph.D., Westminster Theological Seminary) serves as Chair of Arts, Culture, and Literature at Anglo-American University in Prague, Czech Republic. He teaches classes on culture, media, social theory, and religion. He speaks widely (mostly in the U.K.) on culture, media, and Christian cultural engagement. His books include: Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective (P&R, 2012), The Pop Culture Parent: Helping Kids Engage their World for Christ (co-authored with E. Stephen Burnett and Jared Moore), and most recently, Oasis of Imagination: Engaging Our World through a Better Creativity and Imagination Manifesto: A Call to Plant Oases of the Imagination (co-authored with Ruth Naomi Floyd). Ted has three adult children, one wife, and four cats. He enjoys jazz, film of all sorts, Japanese popular culture (especially anime, kaiju, and samurai films), F1 racing, and occasionally, American football.

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Pop-ologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective

It's everywhere . . . all around us . . . so widespread it's like part of the air we breathe. Some people love it, some people hate it, and some just...

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