#037 – Fight Club and Letting Our Stuff Define Us
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: On the cusp of its 15th (Yes! It’s been that long.) Anniversary, we break the first and second rule of Fight Club by, of course, talking about Fight Club. If you…
Who·ology #006 – S08E06 The Caretaker
As season 8 reaches the halfway point, we finally get what seems to be the long-awaited meeting of Danny Pink and The Doctor. Does it go as planned or as we imagined? We talk about that and we do it…
Who·ology #005 – S08E05 Time Heist
Episode #005 of Who·ology takes us on another detour adventure to the most secure bank in the Universe. Immediately we are thrown into a scenario where the Doctor, Clara, and two new accomplices, Psi and Saibra, are breaking into the aforementioned…
Who·ology #004 – S08E04 Listen
Episode #004 of Who·ology gives us a lot to ponder as we humanize the Doctor even more with the help of everyone’s favorite Impossible Girl, Clara. While Clara is trying to navigate her first date with a co-worker, The Doctor…
Who·ology #003 – S08E03 Robot of Sherwood
Our first guest! Mark Wingerter from Reel World Theology (and avid Whovian) joins us to talk about the most fun episode of Doctor Who so far this season, “Robot of Sherwood.” Not quite as deep or heavy as the previous…
Who·ology #002 – S08E02 Into the Dalek
Episode 002 of the show has us not only diving further into the depths of Season 8, but also deep into the depths of a Dalek! While this episode reminded us both a lot of Season 1, Episode 06 “Dalek”…
Who·ology #001 – S08E01 Deep Breath
Episode 001 of Who·ology starts in a very convenient place– Episode 01 of Season 08. Our first real glimpse of Peter Capaldi is a good one. We also get Clara wrestling with everything she thinks she knows about the Doctor…
Talking Noah With the Fellows
“The Greensboro Fellows Apologetics class challenges participants to humbly, thoughtfully and winsomely engage culture from a Christ-centered perspective in a way that cultivates and defends the life of God.” – Elijah Lovejoy
In April I had the opportunity to host a live conversation with the Greensboro Fellows. I was invited by Elijah Lovejoy, who was working with the Fellows, teaching apologetics. This was a great time to encourage, examine, and engage a popular narrative that was creating conversations across groups with profoundly different world views. Though there is always a challenge in recording a round table discussion that involves 15-20 participants, I think this turned out pretty well and there was, indeed, a pretty great discussion to be had. I hope you give it a listen and maybe take a look at this film from an angle you had not considered before.
REEL WORLD in Real Life (Summer 2014)
It’s that time of year again when REEL WORLD Theology gets to meet up and have real conversations in real time with really cool folks. These are always a lot of fun because it gives anyone who wants to a chance to chime in on how they felt about the themes and narratives of particular films. We have chosen another great variety of films, from animated, to classic, to independent to “love zombie.” I mean, what else could you want, right?
The Muppets, a Most Wanted Family
by Fizz
In a weekend that saw its box office figure dwarfed by Divergent (the “next big thing” in young adult dystopian fiction), Muppets Most Wanted still delivered a movie that was highly enjoyable and heart-warming. It’s fairly common in today’s movies to only have heroes that are highly flawed or, honestly, plain bad. We, as an audience have voted with our dollar over and over again for a super complex anti-hero (Iron Man 3, Despicable Me 2, American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, etc, etc.), but I, for one, love to sit back and enjoy a tale in which the nice guy finishes first– especially when that nice guy is Kermit the Frog. He isn’t flashy, and he definitely isn’t an action hero, but he is the kind of guy (frog) we should feel good to root for (even if his most debilitating trait is only commitment issues to a very beautiful and boisterous pig).