Postmodern Realities Podcast

This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Cole Burgett about his online article, “Grief, Guilt, and Godzilla: A Review of Godzilla Minus One“. ***Note: This review contains spoilers for Godzilla Minus One. https://www.equip.org/articles/grief-guilt-and-godzilla-a-review-of-godzilla-minus-one/


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Other recent articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring this author:Episode 363 Oh, the Horror! One Christian’s Analysis of a Controversial GenreOh, the Horror! One Christian’s Analysis of a Controversial GenreEpisode 352 Fire from the Gods How ‘Oppenheimer’ Mythologizes Twentieth Century AmericaFire from the Gods: How ‘Oppenheimer’ Mythologizes Twentieth Century AmericaEpisode 349: Film Review ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’It’s the Mileage: Looking Back on Forty Years with ‘Indiana Jones’-Film Review of ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’

Please see this encore presentation of Episode 151: Am I a Bad Christian for Watching Hallmark Christmas Movies? that we did in December 2019 as the content itself is still applicable around this time of year.

More than 85 million people in the U.S. are avid watchers of the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas films. Complete with its own mobile App, Hallmark Christmas film fans can partake year-round in the romantic, true-love plots. Not just on the Hallmark Channel, but other on-demand viewing channels like Netflix have also gotten into the Christmas film game. All the films have the same plot, the same kiss, the same quaint small town, the same fake snow falling gently onto the shiny hair of the protagonist, the same easy “trouble” resolved in less than one scene, the cookie baking that magically cleans itself up, and the dead mother that the child remembers with fondness rather than gut-wrenching grief. What is a Christian to make of this phenomenon? And, more pressingly, should Christians themselves indulge in the occasional Hallmark movie or even a Hallmark Christmas movie binge?


This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Anne Kennedy about here viewpoint article, “Am I a Bad Christian for Watching Hallmark Christmas Movies?”. https://www.equip.org/article/am-i-a-bad-christian-for-watching-hallmark-christmas-movies/

Viewpoint articles address relevant contemporary issues in discernment and apologetics from a particular perspective that is usually not shared by all Christians, with the intended result that Christians’ thinking on that issue will be stimulated and enhanced (whether or not people end up agreeing with the author’s opinion).

For further information or to support the Christian Research Journal please click here.When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever-growing database of over 2,000 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.Another way you can support our online articles is by leaving us a tip. A tip is just a small amount, like $3, $5, or $10, which is the cost of a latte, lunch out, or coffee drink. To leave a tip, click here

This conversation is an evaluation of the work of Sheila Wray Gregoire, host of the Bare Marriage Podcast, and author of many popular books including The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended, She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self & Speaking Up, and, most recently, Fixed It For You: Rescuing and Reframing Common Evangelical Messages on Sex and Marriage Vol. 1. Our review of her work notes that Gregoire represents the last stage in the Evangelical world’s “struggle” (a beloved Christian-ese term for failure) to preserve a theological and spiritual grasp of the person. Her view of marriage offers a bare nod toward the Christian telos of that estate. She teaches about sex from the unquestioned assumptions of two decades ago—Christians can have good sex too! God wants you to be happy! Great sex is one of the markers of Christian Flourishing that is essential for what it means to be a healthy, well-rounded person! These messages ring hollow in a post-Christian materialist neverland where young people are happy to identify as “spiritual” but are, ironically enough, not equipped with the tools necessary to understand what the spirit is, nor what the body is for. The spiritual needs of the person are everywhere eclipsed by carnal ones. Absent from Gregoire’s work is any discussion of the transcendent, metaphysical spiritual soil that produced the fruit Gregoire is so eager to devour. Discussing sex, especially as a Christian, in exactly the same way as publications like Glamour or Vogue is an assumption of a philosophic framework that, to me, feels like sawing at the very branch one is sitting on. The reason that women and men are both to honor each other with their bodies is because God made men and women in his image and redeemed them to be the Church. The call to sanctification and holiness requires at least an attempt to honor and uphold the spiritual goods of marriage and sex, even while trying to instruct married people how to do it “better.”


This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Anne Kennedy about her online article, “Sex and The Evangelical Girl: A Review of Sheila Gregoire”.https://www.equip.org/articles/sheila-wray-gregoire-sex-and-the-evangelical-girl/

When you support the Journal, you join the team of to help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.Another way you can support our online articles is by leaving us a tip. A tip is just a small amount, like $3, $5, or $10 which is the cost for some of a latte, lunch out, or coffee drink. To leave a tip, click here

Other recent articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring this author:Episode 353 Women and the Genderless Jesus A Review of ‘Women and the Gender of God’ by Amy PeelerWomen and the Genderless Jesus — A Review of ‘Women and the Gender of God’ by Amy PeelerEpisode 343 A Review of Beautiful Union by Joshua Ryan ButlerThe Upside-Down Metaphor: A Hermeneutical Critique of Josh Butler’s ‘Beautiful Union’

This is an audio version of the Cʜʀɪsᴛɪᴀɴ Rᴇsᴇᴀʀᴄʜ Jᴏᴜʀɴᴀʟ article “Carlton Pearson’s Gospel of Inclusion” by Bob Hunter This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, print issue volume 30, number 04 (2007). https://www.equip.org/articles/carlton-pearsons-gospel-of-inclusion/

Please see this encore presentation of Episode 316: Take Joy: Santa, St. Nicholas, and Jesus that we did in November 2022 as the content itself is still applicable around this time of year.

This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Anne Kennedy about her online-exclusive Viewpoint article, “Take Joy: Santa, St. Nicholas, and Jesus”. https://www.equip.org/articles/take-joy-santa-st-nicholas-and-jesus/

For further information or to support the Christian Research Journal please click here.When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever-growing database of over 2,000 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.Another way you can support our online articles is by leaving us a tip. A tip is just a small amount, like $3, $5, or $10, which is the cost of a latte, lunch out, or coffee drink. To leave a tip, click here

This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Jay Watts about his online article, “The Roots of Planned Parenthood”. https://www.equip.org/articles/the-roots-of-planned-parenthood/

From the timestamp 00:34:18-00:40:18 during the discussion of people being experimented on, regarding the reference of prisoners being experimented on for acne medication please see Eschner, Kat, “This popular acne medication carries a disturbing legacy,” Popular Science, December 7, 2020.

When you support the Journal, you join the team of to help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.Another way you can support our online articles is by leaving us a tip. A tip is just a small amount, like $3, $5, or $10 which is the cost for some of a latte, lunch out, or coffee drink. To leave a tip, click here

Other recent articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring this author:Episode 326 Life After Roe: A Follow UpLife After Roe: A Follow UpEpisode 296 The End of Roe V. WadeThe End of Roe and the Beginning of a New FightEpisode 288 The Leaked Draft: Is this the Fall of Roe v. Wade?The Leaked Draft: Is this the Fall of Roe v. Wade?

Many Christians today read Scripture through a theological paradigm that was unknown prior to the nineteenth century. This view, called dispensationalism, introduced such concepts as the pre-tribulation rapture and third-temple Judaism in the millennium. However, eschatological novelties are not the most important differences between dispensationalism and historic Christian theology, many of which are not trivial. The controversy raises questions about the nature of the kingdom of God, of the church, and of the gospel itself.Though originally viewed with suspicion by many conservative Christians, dispensationalism subsequently acquired mainstream status among evangelicals and is seen by many as the very definition of biblical conservatism.The views of John Nelson Darby, the system’s founder, have been propagated through annotated study Bibles, best-selling novels, radio and TV personalities, numerous Bible institutes, and seminaries. Dispensationalism has become the official theology of some of America’s largest evangelical denominations. To some, its presuppositions have come to be seen as the indispensable foundation for correct biblical exegesis. Since its introduction in 1830, dispensationalism has branched into more than one variety.This is an audio version of the Cʜʀɪsᴛɪᴀɴ Rᴇsᴇᴀʀᴄʜ Jᴏᴜʀɴᴀʟ article “Is Dispensationalism Indispensable?” by Steve Gregg. This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, print issue volume 35, number 04 (2012). https://www.equip.org/articles/dispensationalism-indispensable/

Many Christians today read Scripture through a theological paradigm that was unknown prior to the nineteenth century. This view, called dispensationalism, introduced such concepts as the pre-tribulation rapture and third-temple Judaism in the millennium. However, eschatological novelties are not the most important differences between dispensationalism and historic Christian theology, many of which are not trivial. The controversy raises questions about the nature of the kingdom of God, of the church, and of the gospel itself.Though originally viewed with suspicion by many conservative Christians, dispensationalism subsequently acquired mainstream status among evangelicals and is seen by many as the very definition of biblical conservatism.The views of John Nelson Darby, the system’s founder, have been propagated through annotated study Bibles, best-selling novels, radio and TV personalities, numerous Bible institutes, and seminaries. Dispensationalism has become the official theology of some of America’s largest evangelical denominations. To some, its presuppositions have come to be seen as the indispensable foundation for correct biblical exegesis. Since its introduction in 1830, dispensationalism has branched into more than one variety.This is an audio version of the Cʜʀɪsᴛɪᴀɴ Rᴇsᴇᴀʀᴄʜ Jᴏᴜʀɴᴀʟ article “Is Dispensationalism Indispensable?” https://www.equip.org/articles/dispensationalism-indispensable/
by Steve Gregg. This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, print issue volume 35, number 04 (2012).

This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Matt Kennedy about his Viewpoint article, “Christian Parenting and the Peril of Public School Education ”.https://www.equip.org/articles/christian-parenting-and-the-peril-of-public-school-education/

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When you support the Journal, you join the team of to help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.Another way you can support our online articles is by leaving us a tip. A tip is just a small amount, like $3, $5, or $10 which is the cost for some of a latte, lunch out, or coffee drink. To leave a tip, click here

Other recent podcasts and articles by this author Episode 306 Marriage Is about the Gospel: Clarifying the Boundaries of Christian OrthodoxyMarriage is about the Gospel: Clarifying the Boundaries of Christian Orthodoxy

This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Bob Perry about his online article, “Just War 5.0 On the Evolution and Application of Just War Doctrine in the Modern World.” https://www.equip.org/articles/just-war-5-0-on-the-evolution-and-application-of-just-war-doctrine-in-the-modern-world/

When you support the Journal, you join the team of to help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.Another way you can support our online articles is by leaving us a tip. A tip is just a small amount, like $3, $5, or $10 which is the cost for some of a latte, lunch out, or coffee drink. To leave a tip, click here

Other articles and podcasts by this author: Episode 99 Taking Jesus to WorkTAKING JESUS TO WORKEpisode 083: Mere Ambassadors Mere Ambassadors Episode 049: “That ‘Nones’ May Not Perish”That “Nones” May Not Perish Margaret Sanger: “No Gods, No Masters” Breaking Bad’s Addicting Defense of Moral Realism Justice and Asymmetric Warfare You Say You Want a Revolution?A Mind for the BeautifulThought for Food