Sacred Cinema: Contact

06.08.2023 - By The Popcast Media Group Play

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Join Knox, Jamie, and Erin in this Sacred Cinema as they discuss Contact, starring Jodie Foster and Mathew McConaughey. Listen along as they deep-dive this 90s Sci-Fi film and explore questions like “Is there a Christ figure” and “Does this film have a problematic faith character?” What do Matthew McConaughey, Brene Brown, and Rob Bell have in common? What would Christian Twitter think about Palmer Joss? Can science and faith work together? You’ll have to make contact with this episode to find out!

MENTIONS

Contact: Rent on Amazon | IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

Contact Deep-Dive: An Oral History of Contact the Movie

Read the Source Material: Contact by Carl Sagan

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