Monthly Archives: September 2019

After all, to turn inward, to turn away from the world, is that not also a type of violence?

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Wade and Kevin tackle two big spiritually themed projects: James Gray’s Ad Astra and HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones.

Race’s conspicuous exclusion from mainstream Christian music (CCM) communicated something implicit and insidious.

When the grandfather reads the story to his grandson, he invites us all to sit at his knee and listen. He invites us to be children again. 

Persuasion is back! Erin and Hannah kick off a new series of episodes called The Creative Process.

We tinker and work slavishly as Dr. Frankenstein did, assembling our online creations with the parts we gather from various sources.

Kevin is back with Wade to review The Goldfinch from director Donna Tartt. They then list their top 5 Fall/Winter movies for 2019.

In so doing, Tinder taps into the soul’s quest for perfection while inviting the user to advertise themselves for mass consumption.

Wade is joined by Blake Collier to review “It Chapter 2” and a retro review of “The Dead Zone”. It’s all things Stephen King on Episode 216.

In season two of Star Trek: Discovery, both the virtues and the flaws of classic Trek’s humanism are on display.

No matter the culture, parents will always be parents, and the fears that cling to us that we might be doing irreversible damage to our children—whom we love more than life itself—reflect back to us in the best stories about families with children.

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, and John Milton’s Satan invite us to view them as the heroes of stories that were never intended to be about them.

Our collective superhero fascination reveals a lot about how we define ourselves, Jesus, and our relationship to him.

Wade and special guest Sarah Welch-Larson review the horror comedy ‘Ready or Not” and Joe Talbot’s moving film, ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco.’

It’s perpetually difficult for those who love their creativity to understand and to reconcile it with their dark sides.