Month: February 2016

• News
• Podcast

Episode 445: Sonic Speeds In and Others News

• February 26, 2016
• Tagged as: a wrinkle in time, agent carter, AI, artificial intelligence, Avatar, Barbara Gordon, Batgirl, Batman v S, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Battlestar Galactica, Cable, dana scully, dc comics, Deathstroke, dungeons & dragons, fox mulder, han solo, Johnny Depp, Justice League, Justice League: Part 1, mary poppins, Metroid, Mulder, ready player one, Rebirth, Scully, sonic the hedgehog, Star Wars: Episode VIII, Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, The Dark Tower, The Invisible Man, The Stand, Wonder Woman, x-files

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Sonic the Hedgehog is about to star in a live-action movie! Plus we discuss other news and listener feedback!

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• Book Reviews
• Books

Book Review: The Man Who Shot John Wilkes Booth by Kevin G. Summers (2015)

• February 26, 2016
• Tagged as: Boston Corbett, conspiracy theories, Kevin G. Summers, Westerns

America loves conspiracy theories. “Freaking out over imagineered shadowy plots,” wrote James Poulos for The Week last spring, “is one of our most durably American habits.” In his self-described “weird Western” novel The Man Who…

• Podcast
• Theology

Episode 444: The Communion Commotion

• February 24, 2016
• Tagged as: Communion

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode we examine Communion. We give an overview of the different views, discuss where they come from (in terms of scriptural aspects, but also as historical…

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• Podcast

Episode 443: Game of Thrones For the Whole Family and Other News

• February 19, 2016
• Tagged as: Batman v Superman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America, captain america: civil war, game of thrones, Jason Bourne, legend of zelda, MacGyver, netflix, Return of the Jedi, star wars: the force awakens, Superman, The Force Awakens

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Some news and lots of listener feedback!

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• Podcast

Episode 442: Staying Classy with the Classics

• February 17, 2016
• Tagged as: C.S. Lewis, dan simmons, j.r.r. tolkien, Lewis, lord of the rings, Neil Gaiman, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono What qualifies as a classic? Will anything from modern day be considered a classic in the future?

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• Books
• Sci-Fi

Book Review: Luke Skywalker Can’t Read And Other Geeky Truths by Ryan Britt (Plume, 2015)

• February 17, 2016
• Tagged as: Ryan Britt, Star Trek, star wars

When I brought Ryan Britt’s new book home from our local library, my 8-year-old daughter—who came to Star Wars last year by way of Rebels and now proudly proclaims herself “a bigger Star Wars geek than…

• News
• Podcast

Episode 441: Rita Repulsa Returns and Other News

• February 11, 2016
• Tagged as: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers, rita repulsa

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Possibly our fastest news episode ever.

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Episode 440: Books 2016

• February 9, 2016
• Tagged as: A Song of Ice and Fire, anathem, C.S. Lewis, dante, Dune, ready player one, The Dark Tower, the divine comedy, the martian, watership down

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, we discuss the books we and the listeners read in 2015, and take a look at what we anticipate reading in 2016.

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Book Review: Between Midnight and Dawn, compiled by Sarah Arthur (Paraclete Press, 2016)

• February 9, 2016
• Tagged as: Christian Year, devotionals, Easter, Holy Week, lent, literature, poetry, prayer, Sarah Arthur

With Lent’s penance now just hours away, confession is in order. Here’s a mea culpa from me: When I was still preaching weekly, I sometimes relied too heavily on preachers’ magazines. I never lifted another…

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Episode 439: The Sci-Fi Christian 2016 Giving Campaign

• February 5, 2016
• Tagged as: Giving Campaign

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Join us by giving to this Water Fund: http://onedayswages.org/thescifichristian

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