Think Christian: A Faith and Pop Culture Podcast ReFrame Ministries

Did you catch the references to Noah, Melchizedek, and the Aramaic roots of a character’s name in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes? JR. and Roslyn have you covered as they join Josh to talk about the latest Apes installment, set a few generations after the time of Caesar the chimpanzee, who is now regarded as something of a religious figure.

SHOW NOTES

Josh on ‘Planet of the Apes and the Reason Monkey Movies Fascinate’ - https://thinkchristian.net/planet-of-the-apes-and-the-reason-monkey-movies-fascinate

Josh on ‘Imago Dei, Eden, and War for the Planet of the Apes’ - https://thinkchristian.net/imago-dei-eden-and-war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes

Join the TC Movie Club to discuss the Mad Max saga on June 19 - https://www.thinkchristian.net/movieclub

Josh’s video essay on ‘The Christian Witness of Mad Max: Fury Road’ - https://youtu.be/NNfR1LC2fKc?si=Xr9OLzuu4On9hO_j

JR. on ‘Wonder Woman vs. Biblical Womanhood’ - https://sojo.net/articles/wonder-woman-vs-biblical-womanhood

Roslyn on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roslynmhernandez/

Left without their teacher, can the mutant superheroes of X-Men ’97 find their purpose? Josh, Joe, and Sarah discuss the ways the animated series might — and might not — echo the dynamics of the disciples leading up to Pentecost. But first they have to decide which one of them gets to play Nightcrawler.

SHOW NOTES

TC podcast on Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men comics - https://thinkchristian.net/podcast/do-justice-netflixs-unbelievable-jonathan-hickmans-x-men

Joe on 10 Must-Read Comics for X-Men ’97 Fans - https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/g60660297/x-men-97-season-1-comics/

Joe on X-Men adaptations failing to do right by Storm - https://wealthofgeeks.com/x-men-97-marvel-best-mutants/

Joe on why Magneto was right - https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/x-men-97-just-proved-why-magneto-was-right/

Sarah’s Seeing & Believing newsletter - https://seeingandbelieving.substack.com/

Josh, Aarik, and Abby discuss whether any spiritual comfort can be found amidst the sonic agitation of Vampire Weekend’s fifth album, Only God Was Above Us.

SHOW NOTES

TC podcast on Vampire Weekend’s Father of the Bride - https://thinkchristian.net/podcast/resurrection-hope-avengers-endgame-vampire-weekends-father-of-the-bride

Joel Mayward on Father of the Bride - https://thinkchristian.net/father-of-the-bride-of-christ

John J. Thompson on Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City - https://thinkchristian.net/vampire-weekend-can-the-undead-have-spiritual-journeys

Roslyn Hernández on ‘Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER as Liturgy’ - https://thinkchristian.net/cowboy-carter-as-liturgy

Kate Meyrick on ‘Lizzy McAlpine and Questioning our Worth’ - https://thinkchristian.net/lizzy-mcalpine-and-questioning-our-worth

Serena Wang on ‘Good News for Taylor Swift (and Other Tortured Poets)’ - https://thinkchristian.net/good-news-for-taylor-swift-and-other-tortured-poets

Listen in as TC’s Josh Larsen and Fuller Seminary’s Elijah Davidson lead a conversation with Movie Club members about the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki.

SHOW NOTES

Join the TC Movie Club - https://www.thinkchristian.net/movieclub

Elijah’s book, Hayao Miyazaki: Lifted - https://elijahdavidson.com/books/icons-of-cinema/hayao-miyazaki-lifted-ebook/

Josh’s video essay on ‘What Miyazaki and Christianity Have in Common’ - https://thinkchristian.net/what-miyazaki-and-christianity-have-in-common

Josh on ‘Ponyo and the Challenges of Multiculturalism’ - https://thinkchristian.net/ponyo-and-the-challenges-of-multiculturalism

Ben Lashar on ‘My Neighbor Totoro and Becoming Like Little Children’ - https://thinkchristian.net/my-neighbor-totoro-and-becoming-like-little-children

Victoria Grace Howell on ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’s Cultural Mandate’ - https://thinkchristian.net/nausicaas-cultural-mandate

What can Christians take from a series that is rooted in Eastern spirituality? Josh, Claude, and Roslyn find a lot in Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, from the way wisdom is shared across generations to the contrasting of fear with love to an appreciation for the “thin places” where the spiritual realm breaks into ours.

SHOW NOTES

Sarah Welch-Larson on “Avatar: The Last Airbender and Spiritual Gifts” - https://thinkchristian.net/avatar-the-last-airbender-and-spiritual-gifts

TC podcast on Netflix’s One Piece - https://thinkchristian.net/podcast/one-piece-come-follow-me

Sara Kyoungah White on “One Piece and ‘Straw Hat Christians’” - https://thinkchristian.net/one-piece-and-straw-hat-christians

Josh’s video essay on “What Miyazaki and Christianity Have in Common” - https://thinkchristian.net/what-miyazaki-and-christianity-have-in-common

Roslyn’s Chasing Justice podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chasing-justice/id1511600139

Roslyn’s FYI on Youth Ministry podcast - https://fulleryouthinstitute.org/podcast

Claude’s Substack newsletter - https://claudeatcho.substack.com/

Josh, Kathryn, and Sarah each bring a Best Picture nominee to the table, resulting in conversations about biblical justice in the context of Oppenheimer and personal conviction as it relates to The Zone of Interest. They also spend way more time than they anticipated singing the praises of Lorraine, a supporting character in American Fiction who quietly mirrors the gracious love of God.

SHOW NOTES

Roslyn Hernández on ‘Barbie and Our Reason for Being’ - https://thinkchristian.net/barbie-and-our-reason-for-being

Previous podcast on The Holdovers as an Advent movie - https://thinkchristian.net/podcast/five-films-for-advent

Robert Hubbard on ‘False Apostles and Deceitful Workers in Killers of the Flower Moon’ - https://thinkchristian.net/false-apostles-and-deceitful-workers-in-killers-of-the-flower-moon

D. Marquel on ‘Oppenheimer and Our Appetite for Destruction’ - https://thinkchristian.net/oppenheimer-and-our-appetite-for-destruction

Zachary Lee on ‘Presence and Absence in Past Lives’ - https://thinkchristian.net/presence-and-absence-in-past-lives

Join the TC Movie Club - https://www.thinkchristian.net/movieclub

Sarah’s Seeing & Believing newsletter - https://seeingandbelieving.substack.com/