Christ and Pop Culture
Summary: Christ and Pop Culture acknowledges the good, the beautiful, and the true in pop culture, no matter how trivial or inevitable, indulging in and enjoying examples of common grace we find in the world without uncritically embracing the worldviews they flow from. We aren’t interested in redeeming, baptizing, abandoning, or dominating culture; we desire to be a faithful presence, honoring God and edifying our neighbor as we wisely participate in culture.
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Erin and Hannah pack the Persuasion house with two guests to discuss The Breakfast Club: Wade Bearden and Kevin McLenithan, who host the Christ and Pop Culture film podcast Seeing and Believing. Only Erin had seen The Breakfast Club before, so this was a Never Seen for Hannah, Wade, and Kevin. After watching this iconic film for the first time, the trio gives their gut reactions as Erin explains why this film became such a definitive part of her high school and college experience.
Seeing and Believing 202 | Guy Ritchie's Aladdin and Olivia Wilde's Booksmart
Persuasion 167 | Podcastin' in the Rain, with Gina Dalfonzo
After last week's big 200th-episode blowout, Seeing & Believing is back to its regularly scheduled programming with reviews of two films about two exceptional individuals. Keanu Reeves is back to his headshot-dispensing ways in John Wick Parabellum. If something with a bit less mayhem is more your cup of tea, the guys also take a look at Patrick Creadon's documentary about Father Ted Hesburgh: priest, presidential advisor, and leader of the University of Notre Dame.
Erin and Hannah continue their Never Seen series with Mean Girls—a film never seen by either. After watching this 2004 film for the first time, conversation begins with gut reactions, favorite lines, and memorable scenes (some quite cringeworthy!). Then Erin and Hannah hash out the messages that Mean Girls tells. How have these messages shaped our narratives around social interactions? Or are these merely reflective of society? Key to the discussion is what makes us who we are.
Seeing and Believing 200 | Our Five Cardinal Virtues of Cinema
Erin and Hannah discuss Casablanca with its memorable lines and Hollywood glam. It has shaped our cultural narrative in countless ways. Casablanca is responsible—at least in part—for why we associate Paris with lovers and the feelings that stir when we hear the song “As Time Goes By.” Interacting with the origin of these cultural emblems and ideals enriches our understanding of them.
Seeing and Believing 199: Dome Karukoski’s Tolkien and Zhang Yimou’s Shadow
Persuasion 164 | Behind the Silver Screen, with Alissa Wilkinson
Seeing and Believing 198: Claire Denis’s High Life and Penny Lane’s Hail, Satan?
Seeing and Believing 197: Joe and Anthony Russo’s Avengers: Endgame and a Retro Review of The Matrix
Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is a movie more than two decades in the making, but it's finally out. With Adam Driver as a creatively frustrated film director and Jonathan Pryce as the eponymous crackpot knight, was this film worth the wait? The Jordan Peele-produced revamp of The Twilight Zone also gets a look this week. The guys examine how well the first three episodes of the new series fills the shoes of the beloved original.
Seeing and Believing 195
Seeing and Believing 194: Tim Burton’s Dumbo and an Interview with Kutter Callaway and Craig Detwiler
In this episode of Persuasion Anne Kennedy, a writer who serves in an Anglican church in New York with her husband who is the rector, gives an overview of Holy Week happenings, laced with her trademark wit. Conversation then turns to the push behind the recent interest in high church tradition and how (or if) these observances should be practiced individually. How does Holy Week prepare our hearts for a richer Resurrection Sunday worship? What does the increased interest in liturgical practice reveal?
