Cinema Credo

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Latest Episodes

Ep. 11: The Life of Brian w/ Michael McGrath
February 16, 2020

Michael McGrath joins me this week to talk about his journey away from and eventually back to Christianity and various aspects of Monty Pythons Life of Brian, from its seemingly quite well researche

Ep. 10: Calvary w/ Katherine Schmidt
January 15, 2020

Professor of Theology Katherine Schmidt joins me this week to talk about John Michael McDonaghs 2014 film Calvary, and along with it thoughts on Digital Theology, paradigm shifting scandal, and conti

Ep. 9: How Green Was My Valley w/ Adam Spieckermann
December 01, 2019

Television editor Adam Spieckermann joins me this month to talk about John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley. Adam grew up in small town Missouri before moving to LA for film school, and seeing the film helped to convince him that that was the career path...

Ep. 8: The Village w/ David Emch
November 01, 2019

David Emch grew up homeschooled in conservative evangelical communities, went to Liberty University and was well on his way to being a youth pastor for a non-denominational Christian church. Seeing The Village (2004),

Ep. 7: Avengers: Infinity War w/ Just Me
August 01, 2019

It’s a short solo episode this month as I talk about my religious interpretation of Avengers: Infinity War. I’m reminded of a professor I had in college who once finished an hour and a half long lecture in an hour long class with the phrase “Of course ...

Ep. 6: LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring w/ Justin Ridgley
July 01, 2019

Justin Ridgley entered high school, experienced 9/11, and saw The Fellowship of the Ring in a four month period and that maybe had some formative influence on him. We discuss the similarities between my and Justin’s conservative upbringings,

Ep 5: Jesus Christ Superstar with Joey Schulte
May 01, 2019

Joey Schulte has gone from enthusiastic Catholicism to New Atheism to liberal Protestantism and with each new step he has found something to relate to, something to draw from, something to push him forward in music of Jesus Christ Superstar,

Ep. 4: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Corinne Labita
April 01, 2019

Corinne Labita knows that the term “new age” may cause eye rolls, but her spirituality of relationships includes tarot reading and Jungian Shadow work, so there’s no other shorthand description. We talk about remembering and forgetting and growing from...

Ep. 3: Death to Smoochy with Jonathan Hape
February 28, 2019

Musician Jonathan Hape joins me to discuss how you don’t have to be perfect to try to be better even in a hard world. Danny DeVito’s Death to Smoochy, like Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, wonders if it’s even possible to live sincerely in the modern world.

Ep. 2: Groundhog Day with Stephen Goldmeier
February 02, 2019

After having watched the film literally figuratively 100 times together by my count, at least 37 the ostensibly non-religious Stephen Goldmeier and I sit down to talk about Harold Ramiss 1993