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Postmodern Realities Episode 245 Glimpsing the Grave: A Critical Review of The Book of Longings
In The Book of Longings Sue Kidd Monk paints a monochromatic spiritual landscape, tediously rehearsing the contours of feminine longing. As the story…
4 years, 8 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 244 Falun Gong: How the West Was Won
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a new religious movement founded by Li Hongzhi in China in 1992. Based on a mix of Buddhist and New Age prin…
4 years, 8 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 243 The Fall of Sherlock: Investigating the Victorian Detective in a Modern Age
There’s a shift in the characterization of modern adaptations of Sherlock Holmes that goes beyond the intensification and acceleration of contemporar…
4 years, 9 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 242 Friendship and Fatherhood in Pixar’s Luca
Luca is a fun, eccentric film that exudes personality and leaves room for some rumination regarding friendship and fatherhood. The notion of platonic…
4 years, 9 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 241 Celebrating the Fruit of the Spirit in Ted Lasso
The best sports stories are the ones that are not really about the sport itself at all. The sporting, or coaching, or athleticism should play a suppo…
4 years, 9 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 240 Be Free! The Making of Biblical Womanhood A summary critique review
“Go, be free!” concludes Beth Allison Barr in her recently released, best-selling book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Wome…
4 years, 9 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 239 No Us Without Him: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Zack Snyder’s approach to the DC material is to skin the heroes as modern mythological figures. And he does so by using blatantly obvious parallels. …
4 years, 10 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 238 Scientific Materialist Manifesto: The Pursuit of Meaning in a Godless Universe
Since Albert Einstein rose to international fame during the first half of the 20th century, the natural sciences have only risen in prestige and cult…
4 years, 10 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 237 Faith, Fact, and Reason: Ingredients for Knowledge
Most of the time in conversations with skeptics, they want to pit faith against fact and throw it to the vicious onslaught of reason to be torn apart…
4 years, 10 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 236 “Restoring” the Divine Name in the New World Translation? A Strategy for Dialoging with Jehovah’s Witnesses
Debates with Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) often prove frustrating, an endless ping-pong of futile talk, especially when the topic is the Holy Trinity. W…
4 years, 10 months ago