April 24, 2018

In this first episode, hosts Daniel Silver and Addie Mena start out by asking whether or not engagement in narratives can be a worthy Christian pursuit, even if a story isn’t written by a Christian author or contains overtly Christian themes.

SESSION THREE:

Anne M. Carpenter & Lyle Enright - “Action and Mimesis in ‘This Is How You Lose the Time War’” Rev. Mindi Welton-Mitchell & Rev. Paul Schneider - “Hopepunk Theology: Weaponizing Optimism in Resistance to a Grimdark World"

Doxacon 2021

SESSION TWO:

Erin Lazzari - “Glory in His Shame: Zuko on the Road to Honor”

Cindy Collins Smith - “Response to ‘Glory in His Shame’”

Doxacon 2021

SESSION ONE:

Eve Tushnet - “Beyond Kicking Butt: Countercultural Representations of Strength and Victory” Mat. Sarah Begley - “Shadows and Mirrors in Time and Space”

Doxacon 2021

CLERGY KEYNOTE:

Fr. David Subu - "One More Blasphemy Remains: Memory, Prescience, Possession, and Abomination in Frank's Herbert's Dune Saga"

Doxacon 2021

SESSION THREE:

Jonathan Jacobson - “Facing Judgment and Choosing Life: The Eschatology of Star Trek: Picard”

Edmund Lazzari - “The Artifice of Escape: Chesterton and Star Wars on Hope”

Doxacon prime 2020

SESSION TWO:

Cindy Collins Smith - “Barefaced and Brightfaced: Pestilence and Theophany in Till We Have Faces”

Rachel Grabowski - “The Banality of Goodness: Problems with Portraying Heaven in Film and the Possibility of Reading Road Warriors as Saints”

Doxacon prime 2020

SESSION ONE:

Zachary Porcu - “The Discerning Consumer: Loving Media Without Losing Your Soul”

Patrick R. Callahan (Dr.) - “Light in the City: Technology, Freedom, and Suffering in Mega Man”

Doxacon prime 2020

LAY KEYNOTE: Ellen Elliot - “Bring Out Your Undead: Lessons in Faith from Zombie Apocalypse Films"

Doxacon prime 2020

CLERGY KEYNOTE: Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick - "Exodus and Escape in the Fantastic: Pandemonium, Pandemic and Promised Land"

Doxacon prime 2020