The Christ and Pop Culture Podcast Network

Kevin and Sarah take on the latest MCU installment, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania . The movie is set to launch Phase 5 of the ambitious film franchise, but is it thinking too big? For the Watchlist segment, Sarah introduces Kevin to the 2014 sci-fi action movie Edge of Tomorrow , starring Tom Cruise playing against type as a cowardly soldier trapped in a time loop during an alien invasion of E...

Austin and Claude start with a quick overview of James Baldwin’s debut novel then dive into its opening paragraph to explore the novel’s religious context and the psychological dynamics of church life. What happens when we come of age in religious spaces that mean well but do damage? Whether you are reading along with us or simply want to know more about this important novel, join us as journey th...

It's raining men! Kevin and Sarah review Steven Soderbergh's latest movie, Magic Mike's Last Dance . Is it light on its feet, or does it land with a thud? For the Watchlist segment, Sarah and Kevin talk about Frank Perry's 1968 adaptation of John Cheever's short story The Swimmer , in which Burt Lancaster attempts to swim home, backyard pool by backyard pool, across an increasingly strange county....

Jessica is joined by Patti Callahan Henry to discuss their shared love for C.S. Lewis and how his relationship with Joy Davidman influenced his last fictional work. Books Referenced: The Paris Wife  by Paul McLain Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold   by C.S. Lewis Becoming Mrs. Lewis  by Patti Callahan The Scandal of Reading  is sponsored by  Brazos Press . Information on the Host:  Jessica Hooten...

Kevin and Sarah confront the truth in all its forms. First, they take on a rare review of a TV show, the Rian Johnson howcatchem murder mystery starring Natasha Lyonne,  Poker Face , about a woman on the run who solves murders with her ability to tell when anyone is lying. For the Watchlist segment, Sarah and Kevin discuss Drew Goddard's 2018 movie  Bad Times at the El Royale , a movie concerned w...

Jessica is joined by Matthew Mullins to discuss their shared love for poetry and Anne Bradstreet.  Books Referenced:  Jesus and the Disinherited  by Howard Thurman The Scandal of Reading  is sponsored by  Brazos Press . Information on the Host:  Jessica Hooten Wilson is a Senior Fellow at Trinity Forum, the inaugural Visiting Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine University, and the author of seve...

In this bonus episode, Sarah and Kevin talk about the movies they're most interested in seeing in the coming year. Follow us on Twitter  @SeeBelievePOD Follow us on  Letterboxd Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin and Sarah take on an apocalypse or two. First up, their review of M. Night Shyamalan's latest outing,  Knock at the Cabin , about a family vacation gone wrong when four strangers appear on their doorstep, demanding that the family make a terrible choice in order to prevent the end of the world. For the Watchlist segment, Sarah and Kevin discuss  Take Shelter , Jeff Nichols's intimate psychol...

Jessica is joined by poet and pastor, Drew E. Jackson to discuss Howard Thurman's  Jesus and the Disinherited .  Books Referenced:  Jesus and the Disinherited  by Howard Thurman The Scandal of Reading  is sponsored by  Brazos Press . Information on the Host:  Jessica Hooten Wilson is a Senior Fellow at Trinity Forum, the inaugural Visiting Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine University, and the...

This week on the podcast: two movies about the cost of making art. Kevin and Sarah review Jafar Panahi's latest film  No Bears , in which a lightly fictionalized version of Jafar Panahi retreats to a remote border village in order to direct a movie based in reality, with very real stakes. Then, Sarah introduces Kevin to her latest watchlist pick, Bob Fosse's  All That Jazz , in which Roy Scheider...

We're digging ourself out of the year-end lists and getting back into the swing of things for 2023 with a new release and a watchlist pick. This week, Kevin and Sarah pair their Watchlist review of Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru with their review of its 2022 remake Living , written by Kazuo Ishiguro and starring Bill Nighy. Does the remake do justice to the original? Or is it simply populated with a lot o...

It's the triumphant return of Seeing & Believing! After taking careful notes, watching as many movies as we could, and tallying our favorites, we've assembled a list of our favorite films…as well as a few guest voices to help us along the way. Follow us on Twitter  @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Read Sarah's essay about After Yang for Bright Wall/Dark Room Learn more...

The season finale of The Scandal of Reading gives a preview for the next season as well as new podcast from co-hosts Claude Atcho and Austin Carty. Here the duo talk about James Baldwin's seminal debut novel  Go Tell It On The Mountain. The Scandal of Reading  is sponsored by  Brazos Press . Information on the Hosts:  Claude Atcho serves as the pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Charlottesvil...

Kevin and Sarah weigh the cost of greatness, and whether or not Damien Chazelle manages to pull off the gargantuan undertaking that is  Babylon , his 3-hour epic about the silent era of Hollywood. Then, Sarah and Kevin turn their attention to Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest,  Broker . Follow us on Twitter  @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon ! Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Jessica is joined by Austin Carty to discuss Frederick Buechner's Pulitzer Prize nominated novel,  Godric . The pair discuss the themes found not only in  Godric , but in other of Buechner's novels that hint at his dealings with the history of death in his family. Loosing both his father and grandfather to suicide, Buechner has echoes of this theme along with his resoluteness to not follow in thei...

Kevin and Sarah return to Pandora to review James Cameron's long-awaited sequel to Avatar. Was the wait worth it? Or is The Way of Water simply more of the same? Then, Sarah and Kevin get into literary adaptations in Noah Baumach's filmed version of the Don DeLillo novel, White Noise. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon ! Learn more about your ad choices....

Jessica is joined by Tsh Oxenreider to discuss Walker Percy’s debut novel, The Moviegoer (1961). The pair discuss how the book, as does many of Percy’s following works, wrestles with the suicides of his father and grandfather, how his conversion to Catholicism related to his desire to not meet their fate, and how the book finds new meaning for younger generations in an increasingly isolated and di...

In this bonus episode, Sarah and Kevin review Aftersun , Charlotte Wells' writing and directorial debut. Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin and Sarah find themselves in the dark fairytale of  Pinocchio , Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson's version of the beloved fairy tale reimagined in stop-motion animation. Then, Sarah and Kevin swoon over Park Chan-wook's romantic thriller  Decision to Leave . Follow us on Twitter  @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...

Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson and Professor Abigail Favale discuss feminist utopian novel  Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Why is this novel still worth reading and reflecting upon today? What does it tell us about how feminism has changed since 1915? How do we form our identities as women and as Christians? Books Referenced:  Herland   by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Genesis of Gender: A C...

Movie magic! Musicals! Axe murders! All in a day's work for Sarah and Kevin as they review a pair of movies that revolve around the power of cinema. First up is Steven Spielberg's semiautobiographical  The Fabelmans , which presents pieces of Spielberg's legacy alongside a loosely fictionalized version of his own life growing up. For the Watchlist segment, Sarah introduces Kevin to Jacques Demy's...

Jessica hosts Haley Stewart to discuss the 1920 novel by Sigrid Undset,  Kristin Lavransdatter . This trilogy of novels described the life of Kristin in 14th Century Norway as she constantly attempted to follow the path of her faith in Christ, but often found herself choosing her own wished more often than not. Jessica and Haley talk about the way the novel reflects the sin upon a family when a me...

This week, we give thanks for whodunnits. Sarah and Kevin assemble in the drawing room to get to the bottom of the mystery at the heart of Rian Johnson's new mystery, Glass Onion . Then, Kevin introduces Sarah to Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece High and Low . Follow us on Twitter @SeeBelievePOD Support the Seeing & Believing Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adcho...

Sarah and Kevin report on Maria Schrader's film She Said , a dramatization of the investigative journalism by Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) that brought down Harvey Weinstein in 2017. For the Watchlist segment, Sarah introduces Kevin to Sandi Tan's 2018 Netflix documentary Shirkers , about the creation and loss of her 1992 student film of the same name. Both of this wee...

Jessica hosts fellow Flannery O'Connor fan, Karen Swallow Prior to discuss the author's final Novel, The Violent Bear It Away. The pair discuss O'Connor's use of her characters as God's friends , or the ones who suffer. They are not treated as a "Pollyana" but as characters that suffer which in turns prepares them to receive grace of God. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...