Cold-blooded murder has been around ever since Cain slaughtered his brother Abel in history’s first sibling rivalry. It just took Hollywood a few thousand years to come along and show us the seedy underside of humanity in an artistic way that allowed voyeurs to eat popcorn while they watched. With such strict restrictions on content […]
The StoryMen welcome blogger and speaker Emily Maynard to help us navigate the treacherous world of the Evangelical conversation about Modesty. Are our bodies good? Are they dangerous? Should people who follow Jesus attempt to be modest at all? And where is MIkalatos? In this Episode: 0:00 – The Fall TV Line Up 09:30 – […]
What’s that you say? You don’t care about hockey? Okay, that’s cool. You’re gonna wanna spend 60 seconds watching this anyway. *jaw hanging open* His name is Tomas Hertl, and he’s only 19. It’s like an opening scene to a summer blockbuster when we need to meet the main character in grand, no, barely believable […]
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Don Jon
Don Jon is new-Hollywood-darling Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s debut film. Not as an actor, of course – JGL’s been wowing us since 3rd Rock from the Sun. But he wrote, directed and starred in Don Jon. And just in case Don Jon is too subtle for you (which is highly unlikely), JGL has stated clearly in numerous […]
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CRAVE
We’re made in God’s image, but we have bodies, while God is spirit. Are our bodies accidental? Are they temporary? Or are they good, vital and essential to our spirituality? How can we resist the cultural narrative that teaches us to hate our bodies? Crave is a series of messages I delivered at Mount Vernon […]
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What Is Your Fortress Made Of?
If you really forced me to pick my absolute, clear cut, most favorite band on the planet right now I would PROBABLY say Alter Bridge. I like them a lot. Their last album ABIII came out in 2010. Their latest and fourth album releases October 8th. It’s called Fortress. I can’t wait. I was reading […]
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Gravity
Ryan, you’ve gotta learn to let go. – Kowalski Let’s get this out of the way up front: Alfonso Cuaron’s latest film Gravity is one of the best I’ve ever seen. Reviewers are calling it a near-perfect cinematic experience and they’re right. You need to see this film, and see it on the biggest […]
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Bringing Up Baby
I had this professor back in college. We worked well together but didn’t have much in common. Then one day as we studied the historical era between the Great Depression and World War II she introduced me to a classic movie called Bringing Up Baby. I’m trying to figure out if that was a watershed moment […]
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Zombie Theology
Hard to believe it’s been more than a year since my book Undead came out. I first had the idea to write about the connection between Christian spirituality and our cultural fascination with zombies way back in the summer of 2010 which seems so long ago. At that time we still hadn’t seen the explosion […]
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How Social is our Media?
After answering some questions from the Storyverse, we use Louis CK’s rant on cell phones to springboard into a discussion of social media. Is the price we pay for connectivity worth it? How social, exactly, is our media? In this Episode: 01:30 – StoryMen Lightening Round 21:00 – Sabbath-Keeping Drug Dealers and Other Moral Villains 35:00 – […]