The Village (2004)

Watching Theology January 19th, 2010

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People respond to trauma in different ways. Some find religion. Others re-evaluate their priorities. Some people, like those in M. Night Shyamalan'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's parable of fear through the Watching Theology lens and ask, "What's the difference between a mythology of monsters and the Amish?" This episode is the second i … (Read More)

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Fight Club (1999)

Watching Theology January 1st, 2010

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[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. This extended-length show is the first of a series on "The Cave: Utopias, Delusions, and Deceptions." [04.01]

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WT03.07 Brigham City (2001)

Watching Theology December 23rd, 2009

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God's Silence Series: no. 5. In the final installment of the "God's Silence" series–and the last of WT Season 3–we look at Brigham City, Richard Dutcher'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 by Dutcher) has to reconcile two worlds, the spiritual and temporal, in an unusual film about the religious … (Read More)

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As We Forgive – Laura Waters Hinson on SBE

Erik Guzman October 2nd, 2009

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Imagine if a murderer was released from prison to live in your neighborhood. Imagine that this person was not only a killer, but the man who murdered your family. Now imagine forgiving that man and peacefully living in the house he built for you. That's one of the true stories documented in the award-winning film, As We Forgive.

Join Laura Waters Hinson and Steve Brown on this week's SBE as they talk about radical reconciliation in Rwanda. Laura is the pro … (Read More)

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WT03.06 Breaking the Waves (1996)

Watching Theology June 17th, 2009

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God'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 talkative God, a being who once was her only confidant. When Bess asked God to bring Jan back home to her, she took a significant step to a time of trial and a … (Read More)

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WT03.05 Mean Streets (1973)

Watching Theology June 6th, 2009

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God's Silence Series: no. 3. [NOTE: Explicit Content] Sometimes God is silent. Sometimes he's shut out of the conversation. In Martin Scorsese'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. Although God offers him absolution, Charlie prefers real atonement. He is the savior of the dregs, but his first priority is to save himsel … (Read More)

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