The Golden Compass Etc.

Erik December 14th, 2007

On this week's SBE, author and film reviewer Jeffrey Overstreet joined us to discuss the controversy surrounding The Golden Compass in the context of his most excellent Christianity Today piece, Fear Not the Compass.

Then, Rick McKinley stopped by to talk about an international movement "restoring the scandal of Christmas by worshiping Jesus through compassion, not consumption." It's called Advent Conspiracy and Rick tells us all about it and how it got started.

We even foun … (Read More)

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The Golden Compass - Jeffrey Overstreet

Erik December 12th, 2007

Christians have once again been called to arms in the culture war. Yup, you guessed it, we're upset about another movie. This time, we're protecting the Sovereign of the universe from The Golden Compass.

Author and film reviewer Jeffrey Overstreet joined us for this special edition of The Brown Sessions to talk about all the hubbub in the context of his balanced and insightful Christianity Today piece, Fear Not the Compass.

Overstreet has a decade of experience as a film reviewer a … (Read More)

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Christmas Stalking

Erik December 5th, 2007

In an effort to get one step closer to Donald Miller's inner circle, we had Chad Gibbs from Burnside Writers Collective on the program this week. (I still love you Don…glad to hear you're doing well.)

Sharon and Mr. Wood were here too. Jordo and Christov stopped by, and we had a lot of fun.

Chad Gibbs is one of the funniest guys you'll read. We talked about writing, Chad's adventures in getting his book published, the Christian's need to sanitize everything, T … (Read More)

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