Pop Culture Redemption

Welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a podcast and ministry that helps you and your church overcome your fears, understand your identity as Christ's Ambassador, and, through the power of the Holy Spirit, bring the Gospel to the world! In today's episode, Connor and the Poettker's cover the cult-classic, "The Princess Bride," a beautiful story how love wins in the end. Sound familiar? There are TONS...

Welcome to Pop Culture Redemption - a podcast and ministry on mission to help you and your church community overcome your fears of being made unclean by the world, recognize your identity as Christ's Ambassador, and, through the power of the Holy Spirit, change the world! In today's episode, Connor & Jacob dive into the historical fiction, 20-year-later-sequel, "Gladiator 2." There's so much to un...

Welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a podcast and ministry determined to help you and your church community overcome your fears, realize your identities as Christ's Ambassadors and watch the world turn upside down with the power of the Gospel! In today's PopCR team, we dive into Dreamwork's animated (and live-action remake) "How to Train Your Dragon, and hosted some powerful conversations on being...

Welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a podcast and ministry with the mission to help you and your community overcome your fears of being made unclean by the world, live into your identities as Christ's Ambassadors, and let the power of the Holy Spirit influence the world around you! Disney's "Encanto" tells a beautiful story of a family, originally afraid of showing their flaws and afraid of the gif...

Welcome to the episode premiere of season 4!!!!! In today's episode, we decided to pull you behind the curtain a bit and show you what we've been working on these past few quiet months and we are so excited to see where the Lord continues to lead us! We also dive into Marvel's newest installment (now available on Disney Plus) Thunderbolts*, unpacking the important themes of breaking free from fami...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show dedicated to helping you see God in Pop Culture! This week, Connor sits down to unpack the Storyboard of Pop Culture Redemption. What do we mean by “Storyboard?” Essentially, our Storyboard comprises the main plot points of the greater story that God has given PopCR to tell, specifically about how each and every believer has been cast in the role...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show dedicated to helping you see God in Pop Culture! This week, we dive into the wonderful movie musical “La La Land.” In what ways does our Christian worldview align and differ from the worldview this multi-award winning film puts forth? How can we engage with this popular movie in culture to have meaningful conversations about God’s love for the wo...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show dedicated to helping you see God in Pop Culture! Today we tackle reality through the classic, Inception: is all that we see all there is to see? And how do we help the world around us recognize and interact with God’s unseen hand in the world? And how do we know if the thoughts we have are ours, promptings from the Holy Spirit, or temptations fro...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show dedicated to helping you see God in Pop Culture! In order to be Christ's Ambassadors to the world, we must be able to speak their language; to know their desires. What better way to understand the desires of people in the world than to evaluate the very advertisements tailor-made to reaching them? In today's episode, we're interacting with Super...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show dedicated to helping you see God in Pop Culture! This week is Valentine’s Day, so we decided to dive into one of Pop Culture Redemption’s favorite rom-coms, “Crazy Stupid Love.” Beyond having an amazing cast, this movie offers tremendous value for Christians to evaluate with Jesus what is good, bad and redeemable in our culture. Biblical topics w...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show dedicated to helping you see God in Pop Culture! Today we take the broad topic of “Fitness Culture,” break it down to bite sized chunks, and discuss some specific ways we each see and experience God. We cover a broad spectrum of points, like working out, rest days, fitness influencers, eating right, group exercise, and even Only Fans models. In e...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption’s first ever LIVE SHOW! We had such a great time hanging out with all of you who came out to our live recording in McPherson on January 17th. In today’s episode, you get to hear from both the regular crew as well as from members of our audience who brought their own characters to rejoice, reject and redeem. Characters covered include Iron Man, Doctor Who...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show that is dedicated to helping you have a better vision of God at work in pop culture. Today, we are diving into all things True Crime. Podcasts, Shows, Movies, Real Events and People, and more are on the table today as we look for God in the darkness of crime and the True Crime culture that has emerged around it. The tone and energy are a bit diff...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show that is dedicated to helping the church have a better vision of God at work in pop culture. Today: Wicked! So. Much. To. Talk. About. Quotes like “The best way to bring people together is to give them a real good enemy” and “If you make it discouraging enough, you can keep anyone silent” give us plenty to talk about as we look for God in this mov...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show that is dedicated to helping the church have a better vision of God at work in pop culture. Today we are diving into the Top 5 Christmas Songs on Spotify. We have a great conversation rejoicing, rejecting, and redeeming all 5 songs in light of the Gospel. Plus, you’ll hear why a midwest Christmas hits differently, and why you should beware of the...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show that is dedicated to helping the church have a better vision of God at work in pop culture. On this New Year’s Eve pod, we’re rewinding 2024, resurfacing the biggest cultural moments from the last year, and looking to see how God has been in the midst of it all. If it’s big and it happened in 2024, we’re probably going to rejoice, reject or redee...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show that is dedicated to helping the church have a better vision of God at work in pop culture. Today we’re hitting rewind and looking at a Christmas classic, the 1964 claymation special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” While only having a runtime of 55 minutes, this one gave us a lot to discuss from a Christian perspective. We had a good time. Coup...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show that is dedicated to helping the church have a better vision of God at work in pop culture. Today, we dive into the 2021 blockbuster ‘Spiderman: No Way Home.’ I mean, talk about hitting all the right notes in this crowd pleaser. We got 20 years of Spiderman movies in one. We got nostalgia. We got William Dafoe. We got it all! We had a great time...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show that is dedicated to helping the church have a better vision of God at work in pop culture. Today, we dive into the fourth installment of Despicable Me, released earlier this year in theaters and now streaming on Peacock. You’ll find that much of our conversation today revolves around the critical nature of love, how God loves us, and how we are...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show that is dedicated to helping the church have a better vision of God at work in pop culture. If you haven’t heard, Moana 2 is about to hit theaters this week. So, in anticipation of that release, we went back and reviewed the first Moana movie that was released in 2016. Classic Re-re-re format today, we started a bit chaotic, but we brought it hom...

Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Redemption, a show that is dedicated to helping the church have a better vision of God at work in pop culture. We are getting after it today. If you didn’t know, Gladiator 2 is coming to theaters later this week on November 22.In preparation for that movie, we decided to go back to the year 2000 to Rejoice, Reject and Redeem the first Gladiator movie starring Russe...

Hello and welcome back to Season 3 of Pop Culture Redemption, a show dedicated to helping the Church have a better vision of God working in popular culture. We got another great episode today chock full of insight and humor as we dive into the movie Kung Fu Panda 4. I mean, who doesn’t need more of Panda Jack Black in their life?! Misunderstood Proverbs, overbearing parents, good ol’ fashion disci...

Welcome Season 3 of Pop Culture Redemption, a collective dedicated to helping the Church have a better vision of God working in popular culture. In today’s pod, we dive full-on into the Election Cycle in the United States. Where is God at in this mess called politics? How do we faithfully and lovingly engage in the midst of division, fear, and apathy? Is there a way forward? Plus, we attached a re...

Welcome Season 3 of Pop Culture Redemption, a collective dedicated to helping the Church have a better vision of God working in popular culture. In today’s podcast, the gang goes full spooky, diving into the movie “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” As Christians, what can we rejoice, reject and redeem about Tim Burton’s latest film? Listen to find out. Oh, and stick around to the end to hear an extra spec...

Welcome back to Pop Culture Redemption, a show dedicated to helping the Church have a better vision of God working in popular culture. In today’s episode, the gang goes back in time to unpack Disney’s “Finding Nemo.” Oh man, is there a lot to chew on in this one! Is “just keep swimming” a call to persevere or an attitude that leads to burnout? How does Marlin’s treatment of Dory convict us of how...