Episode 28 – Covenants This week we discuss covenants, fittingness, and try to keep Rebecca from spoiling the season ending of Doctor Who for everyone. It’s the last episode of season two, and the last in person episode until the Fall Semester begins. It’s also the end of anathemas. New things next week! Continue reading »
Episode 27 – House of Cards This week we discuss the Netflix Original series House of Cards, and promptly forget everyone’s name. This is a spoiler filled podcast and the second to last of the season, so make sure you watch House of Cards before giving this one a listen. Continue reading »
Title: Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Developer: Inkle Score: 7/10 Time Played: Approximately 40 minutes We Did Received a Review Copy of this game. Listen to our first audio review of a game here on the first episode of Crossed Wires: Our Review of Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Continue reading »
Episode 26 – Totally Bogus This week we’re all a bit run down due to final papers and finals. So we discuss the rousing topic of Death! We bring up touchstones of modern pop culture like The Neverending Story, and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. Come and join us to talk about that fearsome foe death, … Continue reading »
Episode 25 – Lover of the Light This week we’re talking about Mumford & Sons’ latest album Babel. We discuss the music, what it means to be a Christian band or not, and whether we can classify this as hardcore rap. It’s our first album review, so we’re off to a rocky start! Continue reading »
Kangas, William E. How the First Christians Changed Dying. Ann Arbor, MI: Missio Media, 2012. How did the advent of Christianity change the perception of the most natural of events, death? This is precisely the question addressed in How the First Christians Changed Dying, the debut book from William Kangas. In this work, Kangas, a … Continue reading »
Episode 24 – Liturgy Take 2 The podcast is lousy with Joshua’s as guest Josh Roye joins us as we take a second swing at Liturgy. We spend a while discussing what we’ve been watching and reading this week, and we try to figure out what liturgical theology is, or what liturgy is, or how it … Continue reading »
<Episode 23 – Love is Good This week we celebrate the human body with a discussion about Incarnational theology, and why all Christian theology should be done in the light of the man Jesus of Nazareth. Also, we discuss The Great Gatsby and Doctor who. Continue reading »
Episode 22 – The Hunger Games After last week’s April Fool’s cast, we return to seriously discuss the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. There is a fair amount talked about sacrifice, dehumanization, media and ancient Rome. We also discuss the terrible fact that three of our hosts watched a terrible movie, and Josh … Continue reading »
Title: BioShock Infinite Developer: Irrational Games Publisher: 2K Games Score: 10/10 Time Played: Approximately 20 Hours We Did Not Received a Review Copy of this game. BioShock Infinite, Irrational Games’ second BioShock adventure[1], is a masterpiece of world-building and penetrating insight into the extremes of American civil religion, the nationalization of religious traditions, and the … Continue reading »
