Persuasion 182 | The Road Home
Disagreements within the church are often and many, and in today’s digital age, that drama often spills out to the interwebs. Last fall, one in particular dominated Christian social feeds for several...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 234 | Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen and Makoto Shinkai’s...
It’s a new episode of Seeing & Believing, innit? The guys review The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s return to the “verbose Cockney gangsters” genre. Is it a triumphant return? Also on the docket: Makoto...
View ArticlePersuasion 183 | Home Making
Our understanding of home affects everything about us, both individually and collectively. Home is vital to us all, but determining its value in a market-based society is fraught with troubles....
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 235 | Osgood Perkins’s Gretel and Hansel and Fernando...
It’s an episode of dynamic duos this week! Director Os Perkins follows up his horror flick The Blackcoat’s Daughter with Gretel and Hansel, a dark reimagining of the Grimm brothers’ (already pretty...
View ArticlePersuasion 184 | Home Bodies, with Wesley Hill
You can’t think about home without thinking about the people in it. Our most formative and important relationships are rooted here, an inextricable part of what we conceive of when we think about...
View ArticleThe CaPC 25 for January 2020 | Caucuses, Kobe, and Conversations
The 25 is back for 2020 with a different format (and possibly a different title?). Host Jonathan Clauson returns with guests Kaitlyn Schiess and Tyler Burns. Starting the show with a brief recap of...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 236 | Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey and Jeff Baena’s Horse Girl
The guys are back on the comic-book beat this week! Harley Quinn isn’t exactly a superhero or a supervillain in Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey, but the Margot Robbie-starring film still looks to have some...
View ArticlePersuasion 185 | Family Values
For decades, Christians have championed something called “family values.” Traditional marriage, the preservation of the nuclear family, and conservative sexual ethics were prime tenets (along with a...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 237 | The Top Ten Films of the Decade
After weeks of agonizingly paring their favorite films of the past decade down to a list of ten, Wade and Kevin are finally ready to share what they think are the finest examples of cinematic art to...
View ArticlePersuasion 186 | The Missional Home, with Laura Fabrycky
When John MacArthur told Beth Moore to “go home,” it revealed much about his framework for how the church and home should operate and who is responsible for each sphere. This perspective seems to see...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 238 | Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire and...
Two women filmmakers are highlighted on the show this week! First up is Celine Sciamma, whose critically acclaimed Portrait of a Lady on Fire has finally had its wide release. Do Wade and Kevin fall...
View ArticlePersuasion 186 BONUS | Interview with Laura Fabrycky
Listen to Hannah’s full interview with Laura Fabrycky in this special members-only bonus episode . . . This content is for Christ and Pop Culture members only. If you'd like to continue reading it,...
View ArticlePersuasion 187 | Home + Work, with Rachel Anderson
How does our perception of home affect the way we go about our work? One way is by adopting marketplace values and priorities and yielding our home life to achieve those ends—often to the detriment of...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 239 | Dan Scanlon’s Onward and Autumn de Wilde’s Emma
The guys explore more family-friendly realms in this week’s episode! First up is Pixar’s riff on fantasy tropes, Dungeons & Dragons, and fraternal bonding, the colorful Onward. Equally colorful is...
View ArticlePersuasion 188 | Family Ties, with Aundi Kolber
If home is truly where your story starts, then our family members are the characters that make the story come to life. Every family has its own narrative, its own way of functioning and operating...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 240 | Bong Joon Ho’s Mother
Hot off the heels of Bong Joon Ho’s Academy Award run, Wade and Kevin weather quarantine with the beginning of a South Korean cinema marathon. First up is Bong’s 2010 film Mother, a story of murder,...
View ArticlePersuasion 189 | Finally Home
If the meaning and purpose of home wasn’t top of mind before our Go Home! series began, it certainly is now. Of course, most of that credit belongs to the worldwide spread of COVID-19. Government...
View ArticlePersuasion 187 BONUS | Interview with Rachel Anderson
Listen to Hannah’s full interview with Rachel Anderson in this special members-only bonus episode . . . This content is for Christ and Pop Culture members only. If you'd like to continue reading it,...
View ArticlePersuasion 188 BONUS | Interview with Aundi Kolber
Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson invited Aundi Kolber to Persuasion to share about her work as a licensed professional counselor in Castle Rock, Colorado. Aundi’s speciality is trauma-informed therapy,...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing 241 | South Korean Movie Marathon Kim Ki-young’s The...
Seeing & Believing keeps the South Korean movie marathon rolling with one of the fountainheads of South Korean cinematic history this week. Kim Ki-young’s The Housemaid is often cited as one of...
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