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		<title>The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (2009)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like everything connected with Terry Gilliam is cursed. This edition of Watching Theology is no exception. Five months in planning, viewing, and construction, the Doctor Parnassus program finally emerges for public listening. On this show, you&#039;ll hear Duke and Joe discuss whether they&#039;re just a bunch of miserable movie haters, whether Terry Gilliam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2010/12/22/the-imaginarium-of-dr-parnassus-2009/</link>
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		<title>The Wizard of Oz (1939)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Loved by millions, generation after generation, The Wizard of Oz remains a symbol of the wonder film can inspire. It is the magical tale of a poor farm girl brought to a Technicolor land of munchkins, witches, and flying monkeys. The story has the power to likewise transport the viewer &#034;over the rainbow&#034; into a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2010/07/21/the-wizard-of-oz-1939/</link>
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		<title>WTG: The Lion King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A G-rated Watching Theology. We&#039;re not saying that WT isn&#039;t for general audiences, but this version is designed for a younger listener. Join Watching Theology G with Joe and his daughter Elaina. Together, they look at the ideas in films from both an adult&#039;s and a child&#039;s world. What does The Lion King have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2010/06/27/wtg-the-lion-king/</link>
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		<title>Gattaca (1997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember Y2K? In the 1990s, movies were obsessed with the future and what it was like to live at the end of time. Gattaca is no exception. Andrew Niccol&#039;s film imagines a near-future in which people&#039;s worth is determined by their genetic code and Ethan Hawke doesn&#039;t have the right DNA. But he has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2010/05/06/gattaca-1997/</link>
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		<title>The Truman Show (1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Call it satire, call it an allegory, but The Truman Show is about something. In this production-delayed episode Duke and Joe look over Peter Weir&#039;s oddly prophetic take on television. Join us as we examine how Jim Carey represents a helpless philosophical captive striving for enlightenment, a brave seeker battling demonic forces, or an innocent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2010/03/08/the-truman-show-1998/</link>
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		<title>The Village (2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People respond to trauma in different ways. Some find religion. Others re-evaluate their priorities. Some people, like those in M. Night Shyamalan&#039;s The Village, put themselves into an isolated 19th century town hiding away from the world. In this edition, Duke and Joe look at Shyamalan&#039;s parable of fear through the Watching Theology lens and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2010/01/19/the-village-2004/</link>
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		<title>Fight Club (1999)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: Explicit Content] New season. New series. New co-host. Same Watching Theology wisdom (sorry). Season 4 begins with an all-male look at twentieth century masculinity according to Pitt, Norton, Fincher, and Palahniuk. Joe is joined by Duke Senter to listen to Fight Club and ask what it means to be male and survive existential vacuums. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2010/01/01/fight-club-1999/</link>
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		<title>WT03.07 Brigham City (2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God&#039;s Silence Series: no. 5. In the final installment of the &#034;God&#039;s Silence&#034; series&#8211;and the last of WT Season 3&#8211;we look at Brigham City, Richard Dutcher&#039;s third film. Brigham is a little community in Utah, a Mormon town with two police officers and no crime. But a series of murders disrupts paradise. The Sheriff/bishop (played [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2009/12/23/wt0307-brigham-city-2001/</link>
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		<title>WT03.06 Breaking the Waves (1996)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God&#039;s Silence Series: no. 4. When Bess married Jan, it united an outsider and an insider, an oilworker and a member of a strict religious community. Their marriage was a happy one: sensual, fun, passionate. All that ended when Jan returned to his oil platform and Bess was left alone. She resumed prayers to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2009/06/17/wt0306-breaking-the-waves-1996/</link>
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		<title>WT03.05 Mean Streets (1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God&#039;s Silence Series: no. 3. [NOTE: Explicit Content] Sometimes God is silent. Sometimes he&#039;s shut out of the conversation. In Martin Scorsese&#039;s breakthrough film Mean Streets, Charlie is trying to find his own way to stay out of Hell. He is the saint of Little Italy, just not the kind of saint anyone would canonize. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2009/06/06/wt0305-mean-streets-1973/</link>
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		<title>WT03.04 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God&#039;s Silence Series: no. 2. In part two of the &#034;God&#039;s Silence&#034; series, Watching Theology considers the profound link between ethics and God&#039;s existence. If God exists, He must care, and if God cares, He must punish. So if Martin Landau were to, say, kill Anjelica Huston, you might expect a lightning bolt or two, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2009/05/07/wt0304-crimes-and-misdemeanors-1989/</link>
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		<title>WT03.03 Winter Light (1962)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God&#039;s Silence Series: no. 1. Ingmar Bergman&#039;s films have become synonymous with existential terror. In 1962&#039;s Winter Light, Bergman explores what could be a typical Sunday for a struggling pastor, except that this pastor may not believe in God. Winter Light is the first episode in a 5 part series on religious doubt, specifically on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2009/04/19/wt0303-winter-light-1962/</link>
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		<title>WT03.02 Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s a tale as old as time. On this episode, WT turns it&#039;s careful gaze to the waters of the Amazon, watching Jack Arnold&#039;s Universal Monster classic Creature from the Black Lagoon. In those dark waters, we find an evolutionary story of Beauty and the Beast and a few bizarre love triangles. As an added [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2009/03/21/wt0302-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954/</link>
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		<title>WT03.01 Choke (2008)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this first episode of season 3, Joe spends a few minutes with Clark Gregg&#039;s Choke. This latest adaptation of a Chuck Palahniuk novel is far removed from the David Fincher Fight Club adaptation, but a few threads connect them. Of course there is a fascination with vulgarity and the visceral. There is the strange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2009/02/20/wt0301-choke-2008/</link>
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		<title>Watching Reading &#8211; Reading Watching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that you don&#039;t have something better to do with your money &#8211; like giving to Key Life. But for those listeners who can&#039;t get enough movie stuff, the fine folks at Watching Theology offer a collection of film readings. Watching is a mixed collection of articles, papers, reviews and other ramblings from the various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2009/01/08/watching-reading-reading-watching/</link>
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		<title>WT02.10 A Watching Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: Explicit Content] If all you want for Christmas is Muppets and Miley Cyrus, avoid this show. But, if you don&#039;t mind a little sex, violence, and f-words in your eggnog, we have the gift that keeps giving. On this special (and rare) edition of Watching Theology, we turn our attention toward the Christmas movie. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/12/23/wt0210-a-watching-christmas/</link>
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		<title>WT02.09 Star Trek &#8211; The Motion Picture (1979)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God, evolution, the rise of a living machine, theology, humanism and a Vulcan named Spock. It&#039;s all in Robert Wise&#039;s adaptation of Star Trek mythology. On this episode, Joe does a solo take on what might be the real meaning of the players and ideas behind the first feature of television&#039;s most celebrated crew. (Note: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/07/18/wt0209-star-trek-the-motion-picture-1979/</link>
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		<title>WT02.08 Lars and the Real Girl (2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing says caring like a close community of Christian believers, compassionate co-workers and a life-like &#034;love doll.&#034; Lars and the Real Girl is the story of a lonely man who becomes so gripped by the contrary forces of fear and love that he suffers from the delusion of believing that an internet-ordered mannequin is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/07/11/wt0208-lars-and-the-real-girl-2007/</link>
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		<title>WT Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, the podcast still exists. And it will return soon. Here&#039;s the quick rundown on some adjusted program dates (and listen to the audio for a preview of some other upcoming shows): Lars and the Real Girl (July 11), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (July 18), Rear Window (Aug 1)]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/07/03/wt-update/</link>
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		<title>WT02.07 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the long awaited fourth movie in the Indiana Jones series hitting theaters, it seemed to be a good time to revisit our childhood and our collective social consciousness with an adventure. On this episode we go back to the beginning with Harrison Ford, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg to a surprising little homage film [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/05/23/wt0207-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981/</link>
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		<title>WT02.06 Citizen Kane (1941)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Considered by numerous critics and film organizations to be the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane is large in legend even without our brief examination of the movie. But even Orson Welles &#8211; as Charles Foster Kane and director &#8211; is not beyond our arrogant ramblings about life and meaning. On this episode, we look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/05/15/wt0206-citizen-kane-1941/</link>
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		<title>WT02.05: A Scanner Darkly (2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: Explicit Content] Whether or not there&#039;s a huge government/corporate conspiracy to take over every liberty &#8211; to enslave and control us &#8211; there&#039;s always time to think about reality. Fortunately, in Philip K. Dick&#039;s and Richard Linklater&#039;s vision of the near future, we&#039;re provided with ample examples of how one might go about losing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/04/29/wt0205-a-scanner-darkly-2006/</link>
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		<title>WT02.04 The Wicker Man (1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere on an island outside Scotland, Christopher Lee has built the perfect neo-Pagan civilization. There you will find fertility rites, folk music and a frolicking Britt Ekland (and her body double). You will also witness a clash of civilizations that hasn&#039;t been seen since St. Patrick brought Christianity to the heathens in Ireland. On this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/04/15/wt0204-the-wicker-man-1973/</link>
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		<title>Casino Royale (2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: Explicit Content] It may never have occurred to you before, but James Bond is a troubled old man. Being a glossy hit man may have some drawbacks, such as the inability to keep a conscience and a slightly troubled Freudian nightmare of a view on women. We put Casino Royale and Daniel Craig&#039;s Bond [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/04/01/casino-royale-2006/</link>
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		<title>Pinocchio (1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do the frontier revival evangelists have in common with pre-War, classic Disney animation? Perhaps a lot more than many of us may have considered. It seems that Pinocchio has more to say about good behavior and the problem of succumbing to the devil&#039;s devices &#8211; gambling, drinking, smoking, etc. &#8211; than many of today&#039;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/03/18/pinocchio-1940/</link>
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		<title>Shaun of the Dead (2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You don&#039;t see a zombie every day, but if you did, would it change your life forever? On this episode &#8211; the first of season two &#8211; we spend time with some nobody named Shaun, who is having a very bad day. It seems that everyone around the poor guy is turning into the undead, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/03/04/shaun-of-the-dead-2004/</link>
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		<title>Watching Theology: Season 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite our attempts to keep an occasional show posted &#8211; our best laid plans to keep Watching Theology alive &#8211; we&#039;ve failed miserably. Quite a few opportunities have come and gone. So, left with the reality of seeing the show disappear altogether, we&#039;ve decided to salvage it from the littered heap of podcast debris and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2008/02/02/watching-theology-season-2/</link>
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		<title>Children of Men (2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: Explicit Content] Since Huxley&#039;s Brave New World, novels and films have flowed with a bleak view of the not-too-distant future. Alfonso Cuaron&#039;s adaptation of P.D. James&#039; Children of Men doesn&#039;t depart too far from this perspective. But it does offer some new thoughts to the genre. Join us as we look at what the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2007/10/23/children-of-men-2006/</link>
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		<title>Forbidden Planet (1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1950&#039;s science fiction is a wonderful place for finding heavy-handed propaganda. The stories are often parables and metaphors with shiny gadgets and planet-size catastrophes. 1956&#039;s Forbidden Planet is an example of great moral lessons buried in the luster of special effects and lasers. Forbidden Planet also has the distinction of being the finest blending of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2007/10/15/forbidden-planet-1956/</link>
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		<title>Barton Fink (1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some films are clear &#8211; you know exactly what you&#039;re getting and exactly what you&#039;re supposed to learn. Then there&#039;s Barton Fink. In the midst of a bad case of writer&#039;s block, the Coen Brothers scripted this tale of a talented playwright with his own unusual case of writer&#039;s block. Barton leaves the promise and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stevebrownetc.com/2007/09/11/barton-fink-1991/</link>
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