Latest Wicker Podcast Episodes
44b - Nigel Kneale's Beasts - During Barty's Party
General Witchfinders - April 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome back to our “Beasts” Double Bill! Last time, we watched "The Dummy" from the infamous anthology series by General Witchfinders hero Nigel Kneale. We now leave the smashed-up movie set of "The Dummy" with its snarling Y-fronts-wearing jilted actor and join Angie and Roger Truscott in th...
Third Sunday of Easter
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - April 14, 2024 19:50 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs we move through the Easter season, we’re invited into explore new life and resurrection in the texts. So too, as we continue the “A Place” sermon series that reflects our A Place for All campaign, we’re looking at these readings with a lens toward how we are called to create “a place” to best...
Second Sunday of Easter
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - April 07, 2024 19:16 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEarly on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been rolled away. At first she didn’t know where Jesus’s body had gone – and she was desperately sad, because she wanted a proper burial... The post Second Sunday of Easter ap...
44a - Nigel Kneale's Beasts - The Dummy
General Witchfinders - March 29, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWe continue where we left off in episode 27 with our exploration of the 1976 British anthology series "Beasts," written by the legendary Nigel Kneale (who now has his own dedicated page on our website!), tonight we watch the first of two episodes "The Dummy." Directed by Don Leaver (not Cleaver)...
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - March 17, 2024 19:03 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday’s gospel reading jumped the gun in terms of the chronology leading up to Holy Week. You see, next week we’ll gather outside to process with palms as we recall Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem before his betrayal, sham trial, and execution. But today’s reading falls after Jesus’ triump...
118 - Review of the Year 2023
Cinema Limbo - March 09, 2024 10:12 - 2 hoursJeremy is joined by Chris Arnsby for a comprehensive review of 2023 in film, covering the ten best and five worst films, and touching on such matters as difficult third acts, John Deacon, disappointing perfumes, the Nose Film and the menace of an empty space. Thread of nominees: https://twitter...
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - March 03, 2024 20:33 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIt is wonderful being here this third Sunday in Lent. To be back in this sanctuary leading worship with you is such a gift. Yet, knowing Wicker Park is an ever-changing community, there are many of you who don’t know me. My name is Pastor Paisley and I had the gift of serving as vicar here in 20...
Second Sunday in lent
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - February 25, 2024 19:51 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe passage we just read is from Mark chapter 8. This is the last time we’re going to hear from Mark until Holy Week, so I think we should take stock of where we are and where we’ve been in this gospel, so that we can locate ourselves in our story today... The post Second Sunday in lent appeare...
43 - 28 Days Later
General Witchfinders - February 22, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratings28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film, our first film from the 21st Century. Ewan McGregor was the original choice to play the protagonist, ‘Jim’, but he and director Danny Boyle had a falling-out at the time over The Beach, in which McGregor was to play the lead but was...
117 - Hobo with a Shotgun
Cinema Limbo - February 21, 2024 23:59 - 1 hourJeremy is joined by perennial guest Chris Arnsby for a belated Christmas episode, as they experience Jason Eisener's 2011 darkly comic exploitation homage Hobo with a Shotgun, starring Rutger Hauer, Molly Dunsworth and Brian Downey. Their conversation covers such topics as living in a real-life ...
First Sunday in Lent
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - February 18, 2024 19:13 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday we are in a new season of the church year. This is the first Sunday of Lent! And there is something really special about Lent in the year of Mark, something you might not notice unless you pay very close attention. For each of the five Sundays of Lent, every reading from the Hebrew Bible w...
116 - The Last Wave
Cinema Limbo - February 07, 2024 23:59 - 1 hourJeremy is accompanied by author Simon Guerrier for a study of The Last Wave, Peter Weir's 1977 Australian mythological urban thriller, with their conversation covering such topics as white saviour narratives, the Australian New Wave, storytelling through contrast and Papa Lazarou. The Last Wave...
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - February 04, 2024 19:53 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis is the Year of Mark. And something you gotta know about Mark is that he loves the word “immediately.” It’s a little hard to tell that sometimes in English, because translators have taken that word out in some places to make the text sound better to our modern ears, but if you were to read M...
Reconciling in Christ Sunday
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - January 28, 2024 19:14 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday our first reading came from the book of Deuteronomy, which is the last book of the Torah. And Deuteronomy is a very special book, although it can be a little hard to understand sometimes. But we know this book and its stories are very important to God, because Jesus quotes Deuteronomy more...
115 - Equilibrium
Cinema Limbo - January 25, 2024 17:00 - 1 hourJeremy is joined in the first of a new run of the podcast by Paul Morris, podcaster and scriptwriter, to discuss 2002's sci-fi action Equilibrium, with their conversation covering such matters as stimulating statues, insufficient purity of concept, the word "phenomenological" and the world's mos...
42 - Nothing But The Night
General Witchfinders - January 25, 2024 14:44 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratingsNothing but the Night is a 1973 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by John Blackburn. A commercial failure, the film was the only production of Charlemagne Films, cofounded by Christopher Lee...
Baptism of Our Lord
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - January 14, 2024 20:12 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsListen to Sunday's sermon here! The post Baptism of Our Lord appeared first on Wicker Park Lutheran Church.
Epiphany Sunday
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - January 07, 2024 20:47 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWicker Park Lutheran Church Rev. Jason S. Glombicki January 7, 2024 On this last Sunday of the Christmas season, I’m thinking back to Christmas Eve. On that night, we first gathered for a children’s service and told Luke’s Christmas story. Every year as we share that story, a child will want to ...
First Sunday of Christmas
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - December 31, 2023 19:04 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor months we have been hearing Christmas music in stores. For months we have been buying presents and booking flights and scheduling holiday parties and looking forward to seeing loved ones. For months we have been thinking, planning, stressing, hoping... The post First Sunday of Christmas app...
41b - BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
General Witchfinders - December 31, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Treasure of Abbot Thomas is a supernatural drama produced by the BBC as part of the A Ghost Story for Christmas series. Once again, directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, the screenplay was written by John Bowen (Writer of the Series’The Guardians’ In a declining England of the 1980s, the UK has...
41a - BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Stalls of Barchester
General Witchfinders - December 24, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Stalls of Barchester was first broadcast on BBC 1 at 11:00 pm on December 24, 1971. It is based on the story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" from the 1911 collection More Ghost Stories by M. R. James, it was adapted, produced, and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, who directed every BB...
40 - The Brides of Dracula
General Witchfinders - November 15, 2023 23:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratings"Dracula the Damned" is a 1960 British supernatural horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions starring ‘Big’ Christopher Lee… Scratch that… Rather, the original sequel to the first Hammer Dracula film was cancelled without explanation, although Christopher Lee's decision not to return d...
First Sunday of Advent
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - November 12, 2023 21:03 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPlease pray with me, may the Holy Spirit guide these words from my mouth and may they be received with open hearts, according to your will, Lord Jesus. Amen... The post First Sunday of Advent appeared first on Wicker Park Lutheran Church.
All Saints Sunday
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - November 05, 2023 21:01 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday is one of the heavier liturgical days of the year. Not as heavy as Ash Wednesday or Good Friday, but it does raise varied emotions. Today, we name aloud those who have died. No longer is their memory only in our heads and hearts during worship, but we are conjuring up their image, their gi...
39 - Lifeforce AKA Space Vampires
General Witchfinders - October 26, 2023 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 7 ratingsLifeforce (aka Space Vampires) is a 1985 science fiction horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, adapted by Dan O'Bannon (writer of Alien!) and Don Jakoby, and starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, and Patrick Stewart. It also features John Forbes-Robertson as ‘The Mini...
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - October 01, 2023 20:14 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsListen to Pastor Chrisida's sermon here! The post Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost appeared first on Wicker Park Lutheran Church.
SevenTeenth Sunday After Pentecost
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - September 24, 2023 20:09 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday is a very good day, because today, instead of an ordinary reading from the Gospel of Matthew, we have a parable... The post SevenTeenth Sunday After Pentecost appeared first on Wicker Park Lutheran Church.
38 - Nigel Kneale's - The Quatermass Xperiment / AKA The Creeping Unknown
General Witchfinders - September 21, 2023 06:39 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 7 ratingsTonight, we complete the Hammer Quatermass trilogy (albeit out of order) with The Quatermass Xperiment (a.k.a. The Creeping Unknown in the US) is a 1955 British science fiction horror film from Hammer Film Productions, based on the 1953 BBC Television serial written by Nigel Kneale. Produced by ...
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - August 20, 2023 18:02 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday’s gospel reading is a tough one. We heard that Jesus was in a foreign land with his disciples when a foreign woman interrupted. Now, the rest of the interaction baffles most scholars. Ok, maybe it doesn’t baffle as much as the interpretations diverge... The post Twelfth Sunday after Pente...
The Feast of Mary, Mother of Our Lord
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Sermons - August 13, 2023 18:16 ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSometimes I think we, as modern day Lutherans, are scared of Mary. Maybe not scared in the “creature lurking in the shadows to ambush us” type of scared. But more…I think we often don’t know what to do with her, we’re not really sure what the “correct” way to feel about her is and that uncertain...