In a surprising turn, Marshall watched a movie that he didn’t like. He, Alex, and Macon discuss how Preachy Art is Bad Art, that Christians like to make that kind of art, but they’re not the only ones. “Preachy” and “Bad” do most of the work in that sentence and your hosts work to figure out what they mean by it.

Show Notes:

Van Down by The River

Hurricane Ian

Chinese words in English! How do they work?

Marie Kondo

Not quite recanting, but not quite sparking the same joy.

Good and Terrible

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

Crowders Mountain

Pilot Mountain

Kids today

Gordon-Conwell

The Hill

The Gilmore Girls

Wilson Phillips / Point of Grace

Assassin Club

Steelmanning

Release Me

Pablum

McDowells

Jars of Clay: Flood

Father Stu

Signs

George MacDonald

* Recommended: At the Back of The North Wind

Doctor Who

The Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen, but much much cooler

His Dark Materials

Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged

Andy Gullahorn

Fix You

C.S. Lewis: Space Trilogy

* Out of the Silent Planet

* Perelandra

* That Hideous Strength

Tell all the truth but tell it slant

by Emily Dickinson

Tell all the truth but tell it slant —

Success in Circuit lies

Too bright for our infirm Delight

The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased

With explanation kind

The Truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind —

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