Young Adult Movie Ministry
57 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -A podcast by Alissa Wilkinson and Sam Thielman (and assorted awesome guests) about Christianity and the movies -- all kinds of movies.
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Episode 6: Sullied By Monotheism
August 14, 2020 17:06 - 1 hourDetails, credits, errata: Episode 6, Sullied by Monotheism, is written by Sam Thielman and Alissa Wilkinson, produced by Sam and distributed by Alissa, with our very special guest, Lyz Lenz. Lyz is an Iowan affected by the derecho, a storm about the strength of a category 2 hurricane, and would be grateful if folks who have either time or money to give would check out a recent piece of hers at the Cedar Rapids Gazette, where she is a columnist, that itemizes ways to help people left homeless...
Episode 5: He Died Doing What He Loved
August 08, 2020 05:45Details, credits, errata: Episode 5, He Died Doing What He Loved, is written by Sam Thielman and Alissa Wilkinson, produced by Sam, and distributed by Alissa. This episode is about William Friedkin’s masterpiece The Exorcist, one of the scariest movies Sam and Alissa have ever seen, and a favorite of our guest Jason Zinoman, who features it prominently in his excellent book Shock Value, which he researched by interviewing both Friedkin and William Peter Blatty, author of the book and the s...
Episode 4: It's Gonna Stay Right There in Your Heart (UNLOCKED)
July 31, 2020 05:19 - 1 hourDetails, credits, errata: This week we’re opening up our first subscribers-only episode as a treat for folks who’d like to see what they’ll get with a subscription. I think this is one of our better eps; we hope you dig it. -sbt Hi! This week we have an extra-long subscribers-only episode about McGee and Me, the Focus on the Family-produced VHS tape series sold through Christian bookstores to Christian schoolers (like Sam) and homeschoolers (like Alissa) as an antidote to secular sitcoms li...
Episode 4 Sample: McGee and Me
July 31, 2020 04:52 - 9 minutesDetails, credits, errata: Hi! This week we have an extra-long subscribers-only episode about McGee and Me, the Focus on the Family-produced VHS tape series sold through Christian bookstores to Christian schoolers (like Sam) and homeschoolers (like Alissa) as an antidote to secular sitcoms like Family Matters, The Cosby Show, and Full House, which neither of us were allowed to watch. It was a very unusual mix of high-budget sitcom content—at one point a couple of episodes were aired by ABC as...
Episode 3: The Next Manger Over
July 24, 2020 04:22 - 1 hourEcce Homo (Behold the Man), a fresco of Jesus at the church of Santuario de la Misericordia in Borja, Spain by Elías García Martínez c. 1930, altered in good-faith restoration by 81-year-old amateur painter Cecilia Giménez and dubbed by wags on the internet Ecce Mono (Behold the Monkey), or less weightily, Potato Jesus. The restoration attempt breathed new life into the dwindling Spanish town, which saw its tourist trade boom and the resulting revenues benefit restaurants, the church itself,...
Episode 2: Nylons Suck
July 17, 2020 19:51 - 1 hourPre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones’s frontispiece to 1894 fantasy novel The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris. Details, credits, errata: Episode 2, Nylons Suck, is written by Sam Thielman and Alissa Wilkinson, produced by Sam, and distributed by Alissa. This episode is about the most important text in a child’s life, C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, and its constituent books’ various adaptations, mostly Michael Apted’s 2010 film of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. We also talk ab...
Episode 1: You Should Write a Book About That
July 10, 2020 04:07A press handout photo from the 1976 film The Late, Great Planet Earth A podcast? A podcast! Welcome to Young Adult Movie Ministry, a podcast about Christian culture by Sam Thielman (The Guardian, The Columbia Journalism Review) and Alissa Wilkinson (Vox, Christianity Today). We plan on publishing one episode a week and we hope you enjoy it; if you already have a subscription to the Sidereal Daily Mentioner, that will roll over. Some of the furniture is going to change around here, too, but...