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Postmodern Realities Episode 229 Marriage in Mid-Life: How Disappointment Helps Us Become More Christlike
Midlife is a season of challenge and change―professionally, relationally, physically, and spiritually. On our better days, we experience a sense of g…
5 years, 5 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 228 Has Pixar Lost Its Soul? Assessing an Animated Journey to the Afterlife and Back
Pixar’s twenty-third film, Soul (Disney+), offers glimpses into the afterlife and the nature of the soul, not as an academic presentation on metaphys…
5 years, 5 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 227 Catharsis and the Power of Release in WandaVison
WandaVision is a weird television series (Disney Plus). Even by modern television standards, where hardly any project can get a greenlight from a stu…
5 years, 6 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 226 A Heretic’s Christ, a False Salvation: A Review of The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change
Richard Rohr is a prolific author and popular speaker. His biography states that he “is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to t…
5 years, 6 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 225 Wild Justice: Why Do We Love Revenge Movies?
Many Christians may not admit it but they probably have entertained the dark fantasy of avenging a loved one in a roaring rampage of revenge. Did the…
5 years, 6 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 224 You Only Die Once: Why It’s Okay Not to Live in the Present
The term YOLO was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 20162 but appears as early as 2011 when Drake, the Canadian singer and hip-hop artist, us…
5 years, 6 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 223 Athanasius A C.S. Lewis of the Early Church
C. S. Lewis once wrote in this book Miracles that “the Central Miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation….Every other miracle prepares for t…
5 years, 7 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 222 Deconstructionism and the Gospel of Hope in Logan
Few actors have become so intrinsically tied to a character they’ve played like Hugh Jackman and his portrayal of James Howlett, better known as Loga…
5 years, 7 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 221 Tennyson on Theodicy: How a Victorian Poet Can Help Modern Christians Deal with the Problem of Pain
When struggling with the loss of a loved one, it is sometimes more helpful to turn to poetry than to philosophy for answers and for consolation. Alfr…
5 years, 7 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 220 God and Our Ignorance
Contrary to popular thinking, Christianity is a “knowledge tradition” and calls people to knowledge of God, themselves, and the gospel. This also mea…
5 years, 7 months ago