Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes! The StoryMen welcome a special guest, Julianna Baggott. Julianna teaches screenwriting at Florida State University and is the author of numerous books. Most recently, she’s released Pure and Fuse, the first two installments in a post-apocalyptic trilogy. We talk to Julianna about where her stories come from, why religion plays such […]
Author: JR. Forasteros
JR. lives in Dallas, TX with his wife Amanda. In addition to exploring the wonders that are the Lone Star state, JR. is the teaching pastor at Catalyst Community Church, a writer and blogger. His book, Empathy for the Devil, is available from InterVarsity Press. He's haunted by the Batman, who is in turn haunted by the myth of redemptive violence.
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Book: Fuse by Julianna Baggott
Fuse is the second installment in Julianna Baggott’s Pure trilogy, and like any good second installment, the world expands, the stakes get higher and the characters sink to depths that make us fearful for them. In my review of Pure, I highlighted the religious overtones of the book. In Fuse, Baggott continues to weave reflections […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About God (WWTAG) is the first book Rob Bell has written since Love Wins blew up the internet. Since then, Rob has stepped down from his position as Lead pastor at Mars Hill, the church he founded, and moved to the Los Angeles area. Writing book reviews is […]
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Book: Pure by Julianna Baggott
I have always been fascinated by post-Apocalyptic worlds. Whether films, TV or books, I love tales of humanity in a world where we lost it all. But missing from most post-apocalyptic worlds is something basic to human nature: religion. Herschel waxes religious occasionally on The Walking Dead, and Rick prayed once, but other than that, […]
Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes! In This Episode 0:00 – Meet Dallas Jenkins a.k.a. Mikalatos II 3:45 – A Brief Review of the 2013 Oscars 6:45 – Wait, Who is Dallas Jenkins? 15:15 – Growing as an Artist 26:30 – Bad Art because “God Told Me” is a Protestant Problem 30:30 – Putting in […]
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The Not Valentine’s Day Show
Listen, Rate & Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes! In This Episode 0:00 – Catching Up and Getting Over Illness 3:30 – Not Valentine’s Day (So What is It?) 8:30 – 25th Anniversary of “The People vs. Larry Flynt” 13:00 – Megan Phelps Leaving Westboro Baptist Church 23:00 – The Papal Resignation and our Pope Names […]
You need to know that I really wanted to love A Good Day to Die Hard. John McClane is my hero. I saw the original Die Hard way to young (though it was on USA). And I loved all the sequels. Yes, even number 2. I saw a midnight showing of 2007’s Live Free or Die […]
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Warm Bodies
There’s a precarious period in any trend when we have to wonder if it’s on the decline. We’ve reached that moment with the Zombie craze. Every time a new project is announced, there are a few more eye-rolls than before. We all wonder: will this be the movie/book/tv-show that breaks the Zom-bubble? (Spoiler: It’ll be […]
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Gender-Bending and Super Bowl XLVII
Last night’s Super Bowl was full of firsts, at least according to the commentators. First interception thrown by a San Francisco QB, longest kick return, longest TD scored by a San Francisco QB and so on. But the commentators didn’t mention the one that caught the attention of our party: Beyoncé’s Half Time Show performance […]
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Stories with M. S. Corley
Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes! In This Episode 0:00 – J.J. Abrams and Episode VII 4:45 – The Inauguration and Driscoll’s Tweet Heard Round the Twitterverse 14:45 – Super Bowl XLVII 21:00 – M. S. Corley and Storytelling through Drawing 36:00 – Christians, Art and Reality Revisited (with COMICS) 46:45 – The Return of […]