Doxacon

May 27, 2018 In this episode, Daniel Silver is joined by Gloria Purvis of Morning Glory, EWTN’s flagship radio show. They discuss the Marvel film Black Panther and the themes of family, gender, race, and redemption.

May 13, 2018 Daniel Silver and Addie Mena discuss their favorite show, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which wrestles with serious issues of morality and faith, and has both good and bad examples of how to write Christian characters.​

April 24, 2018 In this first episode, hosts Daniel Silver and Addie Mena start out by asking whether or not engagement in narratives can be a worthy Christian pursuit, even if a story isn’t written by a Christian author or contains overtly Christian themes.

SESSION THREE: Anne M. Carpenter & Lyle Enright - “Action and Mimesis in ‘This Is How You Lose the Time War’” Rev. Mindi Welton-Mitchell & Rev. Paul Schneider - “Hopepunk Theology: Weaponizing Optimism in Resistance to a Grimdark World" Doxacon 2021

SESSION TWO: Erin Lazzari - “Glory in His Shame: Zuko on the Road to Honor” Cindy Collins Smith - “Response to ‘Glory in His Shame’” Doxacon 2021

SESSION ONE: Eve Tushnet - “Beyond Kicking Butt: Countercultural Representations of Strength and Victory” Mat. Sarah Begley - “Shadows and Mirrors in Time and Space” Doxacon 2021

CLERGY KEYNOTE: Fr. David Subu - "One More Blasphemy Remains: Memory, Prescience, Possession, and Abomination in Frank's Herbert's Dune Saga" Doxacon 2021

SESSION THREE: Jonathan Jacobson - “Facing Judgment and Choosing Life: The Eschatology of Star Trek: Picard” Edmund Lazzari - “The Artifice of Escape: Chesterton and Star Wars on Hope” Doxacon prime 2020

SESSION TWO: Cindy Collins Smith - “Barefaced and Brightfaced: Pestilence and Theophany in Till We Have Faces” Rachel Grabowski - “The Banality of Goodness: Problems with Portraying Heaven in Film and the Possibility of Reading Road Warriors as Saints” Doxacon prime 2020

SESSION ONE: Zachary Porcu - “The Discerning Consumer: Loving Media Without Losing Your Soul” Patrick R. Callahan (Dr.) - “Light in the City: Technology, Freedom, and Suffering in Mega Man” Doxacon prime 2020

LAY KEYNOTE: Ellen Elliot - “Bring Out Your Undead: Lessons in Faith from Zombie Apocalypse Films" Doxacon prime 2020

CLERGY KEYNOTE: Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick - "Exodus and Escape in the Fantastic: Pandemonium, Pandemic and Promised Land" Doxacon prime 2020

Bryan J.L. Glass - Who Are You? What Do You Want? The Origins of Character, Our Baggage, and the Backstory of Humanity Doxacon2023

Karen Ullo and Eleanor Bourg Nicholson - Suffocation and Ritual Dismemberment: Speculative Fiction and the Spiritual Life Doxacon2023

Cindy Collins Smith - How (Not) to Play the Game: Game of Thrones and Saving the Realms of Men Stephanie Slade “Against Game of Thrones Christianity” Doxacon2023

Kenneth Hite - The Man Who Shot Joseph Curwen Doxacon2023

LAY KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Tim Powers - Fantasy Fiction Through a Catholic Lens Doxacon 2023

CLERGY KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Deacon Nicholas Kotar - The Sun's Reflection in Water: How St Basil's Address to Young Men Guides Us to Discern Good Fantasy Doxacon 2023

Doxacon 2022: Cynthia June Long

Doxacon 2022: Fr. Brian Russell

Doxacon 2022: Erin Lazzari

Doxacon 2022: Amy Browning-Dill

Doxacon 2022: Sarah Slater

Doxacon 2022: Edmund Lazzari

Doxacon 2022: Rev. Robert L. Lewis, Jr.