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  • Stewarding the Environment at SeaWorld

    After roughly two months of trying, Ali and I were finally able to make it to SeaWorld for the day. We had scored complimentary passes and so the only budget hit was the highway robbery they consider a fair price for food in the park. That, and $7 per person for five minnows, a total…

  • The Hunger Games

    It may take a while to make the shift, but over the summer you should start seeing more frequent commentary on movies I’ve watched. I’m not sure if I’ll start doing formal reviews or not, but I might. If nothing else, you’ll get me to see me develop applications from my thesis to informal movie…

  • Thesis Published In Antithesis

    The first part of my thesis was published by In Antithesis which is “an online journal focused on the Presuppositional/Covenantal variety of apologetic methodology.” My thesis is titled Hollywood, Geneva, and Athens: A Reformed Philosophy of Film. I use Calvin’s aesthetics, Van Til’s apologetics, and Frame’s triperspectivalism to sketch out a way of watching movies. You…

  • My Epic “Lower Still”

    feat. guest vocals by Micah Boyce of So Long Forgotten Look, He’s covered in dirt, and the blood of His mother has mixed with the earth, and she’s just a child who’s throbbing in pain from the terror of birth by the light of a cave. Now they’ve laid that small Baby where creatures come eat like a…

  • The Sixth Sense and The Gospels

    I would imagine everyone who wants to has seen The Sixth Sense as this point. This illustration though could work with almost any M. Night Shyamalan film (except for Avatar, and maybe another couple, ok, so maybe not every one). If you haven’t seen the movie, I’m going to ruin the ending for you… right…

  • Born This Way?

    Lady GaGa’s first single off her latest album has turned into a kind of gay anthem, or rather, the song was already a gay anthem and Lady GaGa is just the one who gets paid for singing it. You do have to give her at least that. Not everyone can take something a whole demographic…

  • Love Wins: A Brief Theology of Harry Potter

    [In case you were wondering, yes, the title of this post is a bit of strategery] It’s been just over two weeks now since the last and final Harry Potter film was released. While a more full scale analysis is due, including working through questions regarding the setting of the Potter films (i.e. the witchcraft).…

  • Meaning At The Movies

    Author Grant Horner is associate professor of English at The Master’s College in Santa Clarita, CA. In Meaning at the Movies, he offers “an extended meditation on why we have movies at all, why they are so powerful, and why Christians need to think deeply and theologically about film art—indeed, about all human cultural production”…

  • Casey Anthony and the Gospel

    Up until about 6 weeks ago, I would not have been able to identify the person in this picture. While in the tire section waiting room at Wal-Mart (because of this incident), I noticed the TV was turned to a live court case, and that was my introduction to Casey Anthony. What was then and now…

  • Theology and Harry Potter

    Well, today is the day. Or if you’re super nerdy, last night was the night. Either way, the final Harry Potter film is now in theaters, which I think we can all agree is the best 8 part movie franchise. Are you planning to see it, or have you already? Or are you more or…