Pop Culture Matters (A Lot!) – An Intro To The New FBC Video Channel
Pop culture matters. A lot. For many reasons, including the fact that pop culture plays a significant role upstream of things like politics, economics, education, and art, all of which are very important to King Jesus and, as a result, should be very important to those who claim to love and serve King Jesus. Things […]
Saving Comics, Sci-Fi, and Super Heroes: The Power of Fan-Set Canon Over SJW-Stolen Icons
Does the enthusiasm of SJW’s to turn long-established cultural icons into perversion-promoting tools make you ill? Does the determination of SJW’s to sacrifice cherished heroes and franchises on the alter of their warped worldview make you sick? If your answer to these questions is yes, then I have some very good news: We don’t have […]
Saving Sci-Fi (And Everything Else) From The SJW Madness
What happens when culture is surrendered to the enemy? What happens when Christians decide that they’re “too spiritual” to pursue excellence in film, literature, and art or that “there’s no point anyway” because “the culture will only get worse and worse anyway before the rapture”? Put another way, what happens when “Christians” stop believing, obeying, […]
No, It’s Not Because He’s A White Guy – 3 Simple Reasons Why Star Wars Fans Took A Pass On “Solo”
Like it or not and believe it or not, the Star Wars saga has become one of the most timely, relevant, and informative fronts in the culture war. Just to be clear, by “Star Wars saga” I don’t mean the films that are a part of the franchise. The saga to which I refer is […]
Pando Calrissian And Disney’s Ongoing Rape Of Star Wars
Let’s begin with the obvious: Disney loves to sexualize children. Disney also loves to bring chaos (“fluidity”) to the foundations of healthy sexuality, healthy family life, and healthy culture in general both through the sexualization of children and as the means by which more and more children might be sexualized in the future. So now […]
Ranking Star Wars Flicks Heading Into “Solo: A Star Wars Story”
I’ve got a bad feeling about this. And I’m not alone. With three awful Disney Star Wars flicks already in the can and previews for Solo looking…well…pretty much on trend with the shallow, stupid, flagrantly SJW direction of the franchise, it’s hard to be optimistic at this point. Hopeful, yes. Optimistic, no. There’s a difference. […]
Avengers Celebrate May 4th By Destroying “Franchise Fatigue” Excuse For Star Wars Implosion
Ever since George Lucas handed Star Wars over to Darth Disney’s ridiculously feminist Sithette Kathleen Kennedy, May the fourth ain’t been what it used to be. Disney’s SJW pornification of the once wondrous Star Wars franchise has been painful to experience, with one train-wreck of a film following the next as the beauty, charm and […]
Disney’s SJW Pornification Of Star Wars
Ever since The Farce Awakens hit the scene in 2015, I’ve been kind of dreading the arrival of The Least Jedi. Okay, scratch the kinda. From the age of five, when I first saw Star Wars in 1977, I was a full-blown fanatic for the series, eager to catch midnight premier showings of each new […]
Affleck’s Batman, Weinstein’s Super-Predator, And The Dawn Of Justice Over Hollywood
The cause, character, and continuing trajectory of the Harvey Weinstein scandal now consuming Hollyweird is, in essence, neatly summarized in one tiny little scene from last year’s big budget blockbuster “superhero” flick, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Before we dive into that clip, it’s important to note that this Harvey Weinstein thing is a Big Deal, and […]
What happened to Star Wars? And why does it matter? (VIDEO)
What happened to Star Wars? How bad was Episode VII? How much more damage will Disney do in Episode VIII? Why should these things matter to Christians? These are some of the questions we kick around in the latest post at the FBC video channel. This is something of a follow-up to an article we posted in […]
Babel, Rogue One, and The Man in the High Castle
I finally got a chance to catch Rogue One this week. Normally I’m one of Those People who takes in Star Wars flicks at the earliest legally allowed viewing opportunity, but this time around there was just too much better-than-Star Wars stuff going on (like the arrival and settling in of Baby Buss #3, for […]
Escapism vs. Exaltation: Two Opposing Motives for Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Why do we imagine? Why do we fantasize? What is healthy fantasy? What is unhealthy fantasy? How do we determine the difference between the two and live in light of that distinction? How do we understand and interact with things like Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, The Chronicles of Narnia or […]
The Martian, the Gospel and the pouting unbeliever.
Holly and I took in The Martian last night and it was all that I’d expected it to be after hearing and reading many rave reviews. It was very well acted and very well directed (Ridley Scott is a genius). It had a solid enough plot and interesting enough twists. It was a well polished […]
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Rolls Over In Bed…and what Christians oughta do about it.
Like it or not, love ’em or hate ’em, sci-fi and fantasy are important. They matter. They move minds, lives, and cultures. Thus, Christians oughta make ’em high priority targets to be “taken captive” a la 2 Corinthians 10:5, purging them of sin and purifying them in accordance with the life-giving, everything-reconciling Gospel-fueled Great Commission of King Jesus. […]
Answering a question about the Enterprise (or Galactica or Millennium Falcon) to come.
Yesterday’s post (Fear Not: The Future Is Christian) revisited a topic that we just love to touch on here from time to time, that being the awesome future prepared and secured by God in which His supernaturally saved and sanctified people will learn, grow, explore, cultivate, and adventure forever unencumbered by sin in a restored creation. Well over a year […]
Fear Not: The Future Is Christian
One of the great things about a new Star Wars flick blowing through the land is the incredible opportunity that it gives Christians to engage, process, and clarify to a watching culture what is truly beautiful, what is truly ugly, what is truly good, what is truly bad, why it all matters and where it’s all really going from […]
A long time from now in a galaxy far, far away…
A long time from now in a galaxy far, far away (and in every galaxy in all of creation, come to think of it)… All evil empires will have been completely vanquished and long faded from the scene… The LORD said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you. Ask of me, […]
Warp speed fantasies, realities, and the never-ending adventure to come.
In a recent article posted at The Daily Mail, the University of Sydney’s Professor Geraint Lewis talked about the possibility of something like warp drive from Star Trek becoming a reality in light of Einstein’s theory of relativity. While the article was loaded with enough qualifiers to make it anything but an endorsement of the inevitability […]
Our Star Trek just got one step closer to reality.
Back in October, we asked the question: Enterprise, Falcon, or Galactica? What will Christians use to explore the restored cosmos? It appears that Enterprise may have jumped out to an early lead of sorts. According to a report posted by The Mirror earlier this week, something akin to “Star Trek impulse drive” may have actually been developed: Flying to […]
The Vision of The Avengers and the Vision of Christianity
I was four when Star Wars happened and pretty much changed my world. About a year and a half later, Superman: The Movie hit the scene escorted by the promotional tagline, “You’ll believe a man can fly.” It was a magical time. From there, it was off to Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, a reborn Star Trek and […]
Isn’t our robotic future exciting? (Or: Should Christians fear or embrace technology?)
China has announced plans to construct an all-robot manufacturing plant. And this scares some people. There are good reasons for healthy concern (not to be confused with fear). A whole lotta folks and families are about to have their economic worlds – and overall worldviews – fundamentally rocked. They’re going to learn the hard way that the “reality” […]
The Reality of Transhumanism and the Glory of God
We see and hear all kinds of crazy things these days…or at least we categorize them as “crazy” so that we might more comfortably push them off to the side, safely out of focus and away from serious consideration. And while that can seem to work for a while, it never really does. In the end, […]
The Seams in Satan’s Godzilla Suit
In 1954, greatness was born. It came in a peculiar package and was inherently inclined towards destructive ends, but it was greatness nonetheless. Are we talking about the birth of the super-secret, ultra-conspiratorial Bilderberg Group or maybe the dawn of the super-idiotic, hyper-congenial Miss America Pageant? Nope. While both may well peg the bad-o-meter […]
Enterprise, Falcon, or Galactica? What will Christians use to explore the restored cosmos?
Enterprise, Falcon, or Galactica? What’ll it be? Yeah, I’m serious. And yeah, this is a big deal. (I will explain later; please hang in there and humor me ’til then.) Now, back to the important question: If you were living in a place and a time where things like space travel and space traveling ships were […]
Making Contact with the SETI Standard
“So what’s more likely? That an all-powerful, mysterious God created the universe, and decided not to give any proof of his existence? Or, that He simply doesn’t exist at all, and that we created Him, so that we wouldn’t have to feel so small and alone?”