Who·ology #025 – S10E00 The Husbands of River Song
It may simply be coincidence, but I find the current airing schedule of a Doctor Who season to be quite fitting. There’s so much buildup beforehand, lots of ups and downs throughout, an often spectacular conclusion, and then we’re left…
The War on Christmas
I’ve heard legends of the War on Christmas since I was a small child. If you hear the press about it, it’s a truly terrifying conflict; red coffee cups rain down like mortar shells, “Happy Holidays” carpet bombs are dropped upon unsuspecting…
The Tight-Fisted Hand at the Grindstone
Welcome to Redeeming Culture! What follows is an adaptation of a scene from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This is our second Christmas fiction, and I hope you like the story of a Scrooge who can’t save himself. • • •…
#084 – Die Hard and Christmas Movie Ingredients
On this CHRISTMAS! episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Merry Christmas from the gang here at Reel World Theology! As usual, we roll out a special Christmas episode highlighting one of our favorite Christmas films. This time, it is…
Review| Krampus
Marking Michael Dougherty’s second feature-length title working as a director, Krampus garnered some attention and anticipation earlier this year. Dougherty’s debut anthology horror film, Trick ‘r Treat (2007), has a loyal following; and for many, Krampus is the litmus test for…
Advent of the Force: The Countdown Awakens
A year ago, the world collectively drooled over the recently-released trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Now, we’re only a little over two weeks away from its release. We posted this article and looked at how our…
A Trip to Bethlehem
Welcome to Redeeming Culture! What follows is a dramatized account of the Magi’s trip to Bethlehem to meet Jesus after His birth. While the story is dramatized (the Bible gives no record of their number or names, for example), I’ve…
#046 – Elf and Putting the Más in Christmas
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Merry Christmas! Our second annual Special Christmas Episode has arrived for your holiday consumption. This year we are talking about one of the youngest films to achieve “Christmas Classic” status: Elf. Boasting…
Top 5 Tuesday – Josh’s Top 5 Christmas Movies
I wanted to make sure I was really specific that this Top 5 list is not Reel World Theology’s Top 5 Christmas movies, but mine, personally. Fizz, Laura, and probably everyone else in humanity would probably take issue that Elf…
Redeeming Santa
“All it takes is moving one letter to change Santa into Satan!”
If you’ve never heard that little tidbit before…well, you haven’t been running in the same circles I have. Santa Claus has been under attack since he climbed down his first chimney.