Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Three Ways The Last Jedi Reflects Troubling Trends in Culture

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It should be no surprise that The Last Jedi , the latest installment in the Star Wars franchise, is by all measures an instant succe...
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Thursday, May 04, 2017

Atheists Should Admit Christianity is Different than Made-Up Faiths

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Last month, the Dublin newspaper The Evening Herald reported that fifty different official religions were given to the 2016 census ta...
Tuesday, January 03, 2017

The Need for Justice and the Problem of Evil

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The search for justice runs through all of storytelling. We watch some nefarious villain executing his evil ploy and we hang on the edg...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Movies Can Make Your Witnessing Efforts Easier

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Engaging people with the Gospel is tough, especially in today's post-Christian culture. People hold to a different worldview; they...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Star Wars, Super Heroes, and How Relativism Doesn't Satisfy

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Today is October 21, 2015, known as "Back to the Future Day" in pop culture circles. In Back to the Future II , today is the ...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Learning about Sexual Purity from A Christmas Story

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Everyone loves the holiday movie A Christmas Story . It's become a family favorite in my house. It can also be useful as an illustra...
Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Misunderstanding God's Complexity

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This summer, Disney/Pixar released the movie Inside Out . It's a great animated portrayal of the inner workings of 12 year old Ril...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Christianity and Super-Hero Movies (podcast)

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They're smashing box office records and have become one of Hollywood's most bankable formats. But why are movies like The Aven...
Friday, April 17, 2015

True Beliefs and The Truman Show

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The concept of belief has been twisted and distorted to mean something different than what had been traditionally understood. Belief is sim...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Spider-Man, Marvel, and the Need for Justice

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The Internet is awash in prayers of thankfulness. Millions of comic geeks are hailing the recently announced deal allowing Spider-Man back ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

What's a Christian to Think of the Killing in American Sniper?

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The film American Sniper , which dramatizes the career of Chris Kyle, one of the deadliest snipers in U.S. military history, has smashed bo...
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Friday, January 02, 2015

Back to the Future and the Existence of God

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We made it! It's finally 2015, that famous year Marty McFly visited in the 1989 Back to the Future sequel. For years, Internet blogs ...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Making Worldview More Relevant

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"It works for me!" That was the response I received when talking to an individual about her beliefs on God. The lady didn't...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Forrest Gump and Jesus' Resurrection

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The Jesus-Mythers are growing. For the uninitiated, the Jesus-Mythers are a small but growing group of atheists who don't merely do...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Comparing The Matrix, Tolerance, and the Truth

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Are you a Neo or a Cypher? If you recognize those names, then you are probably one of the many people who've seen the hit 1999 movie The...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Using Hollywood Blockbusters to Share the Gospel

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Plato said, "Those who tell stories rule society." Hollywood movies are powerful tools that shape people's viewpoints. P...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Ten Great Movies to Use in Apologetics

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Yesterday was the annual Academy Awards ceremony, where those in the motion picture industry celebrate their craft. It is a major event t...
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Why Can't Christians Tell the Best Stories?

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Image by feeb Johann Sebastian Bach once said “The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the ...
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