Matthew S. Rindge is associate professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University (Spokane, Washington). In addition to several academic and popular articles on various subjects related to the Bible and popular culture, he is the author of Jesus’ Parable of the Rich Fool among Ancient Conversations on Death and Possessions (Society of Biblical Literature, 2011). He is currently writing Cinematic Parables: Subverting the Religion of the American Dream (Baylor University Press).