What Are You Prepared To Do?

“What are you prepared to do?”  That’s the question asked in one of my favorite movies from the 80’s.  The movie is “The Untouchables”, and it stars Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia and Sean Connery.  The movie tells the true story of Elliot Ness and his group of “Untouchables” as they try and stop the flow of illegal […]

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Confusion About Life and Death in Star Trek: Picard

The show delves into many big questions about the nature of life and what makes it valuable, but it gets rather muddled. Star Trek has always been willing to ask difficult questions and explore deep philosophical ideas.

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Lessons from Joker Part 2: We Get What We Deserve.

While Joker presents a world with no heroes, it did get one thing right. Everyone is broken in this world, and has the guilt of their own sin. Maybe we don’t snap and murder people who have wronged us, but that’s not the standard of good that Jesus gave us.

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Lessons from Joker Part 1: “Everybody is Awful.”

Would Spock be a Christian?

There’s an assumption made by many today that if these highly advanced aliens existed, they would have set aside all that religious nonsense and embraced pure science and logic. I think there would be good reason to think that intelligent life that makes it to Earth has a stronger theistic view than we do.

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Lessons from the Big Screen: What We Can Learn from Media and Story

How Should Christians Respond to Thanos?

Part of both evangelism and apologetics is engaging people and the culture. Let’s be honest, we spend a lot of time on movies, TV, video games, music, etc. The ideas in them will have an impact on our society with or without us, so we may as well use them to our advantage.

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