Is Christianity “metaphorically true, but literally false?” In this episode of the Your Sunday Drive podcast, we look at recent critiques of (and hopes for) the faith from non-Christian “new pragmatists” such as Jordan Peterson, Bret Weinstein, Tom Holland and Douglas Murray. Along the way we discover some things non-Christians get right, some things they…
When you write about the afterlife, you?re definitely wading into dangerous waters. Produced by Dana Murray and directed by Pete Docter,?Soul?tells the story of Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a middle-school band teacher who yearns for something more. Passionate about jazz music, Gardner wants to be on stage yet he feels stuck. After his sudden death,…
Your Sunday Drive Podcast Season 2, Episode 1. In our first episode of 2020, we briefly refocus the goal of this podcast: seeking ways to approach current culture in a Christian/biblical way. We then ask “what’s happening so far in 2020?,” covering topics from the conflict with Iran and another recent church shooting, to some…
i genuinely dig Ricky Gervais plenty, and i’m thankful for The Office, like, for sure i appreciate his iconoclastic approach to comedy; i relate to his atheism, tho i’m not an atheist myself, as you’ll gather below however, i noticed him make a move in his recent Netflix comedy special, Ricky Gervais: Humanity, that i’d…
you’re likely upset about what happened in Charlottesville maybe you’ve talked about it, maybe took ?some kind of social media stance, maybe just sort of saddened inside it’s probably super obvious to you that all these alt-right racists are wrong, that racism is wrong (“evil” as Trump (finally) put it), has always been wrong, that…
Religion can be a beautiful thing. It can also be very dangerous. In The Student we see how someone can misuse religion in destructive ways.
A decade ago, I read Paul Young?s novel The Shack, and became intrigued by what I might ask God if I were face-to-face with the Almighty Creator of the Universe. If we’re honest with ourselves, seeing loved ones suffer and die is often the greatest challenge to our faith. For Young, the story revolved around…
This week, Steve welcomes Peter ‘the Bearded Movie Guy’ Percival and Patrick ‘with the good beard’ Erskine to wrestle with one of director Martin Scorcese’s most nuanced works, SILENCE. ?Does God speak in the silence of our suffering? ?How does faith interact with action? ?All this and more, only on ScreenFish. Want to continue to…
2016 retrospectives understandably multiply at the moment, as does the sentiment that 2016 sucked, on the whole in general, esp in terms of what memes get play on Facebook, that’s probably accurate many are pointing, still, with dystopian, apocalyptic fervor, at the ascension of the one they call Trump fair enough and agreed (but read…
The end of planet earth is a topic many people discuss and debate today: How?s it going to happen? Who?s going to set the pieces in motion? Are we going to be around to see it happen with our own eyes?
