Hey Nicole, thank you for the kind words about our Divine Sinema episodes. We actually spun those off into it’s own podcast. It has been on a little hiatus, but there are 15 episodes posted with more to come in June! We moved away from looking exclusively at bad movies into films with faith themes, good and bad. You can find the show here on Podbean. It is Divine Cinema.

When can we expect more Christian film reviews? They have been amazing so far. I am a filmmaker myself and enjoy the honest dialog you present of films that, in my experience, have made the division in this country even worse. Fingers crossed for God's Not Dead 3 review soon.

Jesus was proclaimed as being against the natural law by those in the religious power community. He not only embodied the image of God in the most human form possible, but he reflects that back to us by his very words. You, Nathan, are the wonderful, beautiful embodiment of the image of God in as full of a spectrum as is possible without being Jesus. Like any human, you fall in the scale between male and female and back again, but the difference is that your place on that scale is visible. Cis-people, heterosexual people... they don't often see their place on the scale because like the earliest people on earth, they are at the center of that universe. Their "YOU ARE HERE" arrow is above them and they fail to recognize it's pointed in the wrong direction. It takes great self-awareness to be free to take the arrow and turn it around, and I pray that in that place you will always find peace. Reflecting the human divinity and diversity back at others makes you Christ-like. Don't ever lose that. Grace and peace to you on your journey.

Jacob was slight and thin. He was therefore likely seen as feminine, and he stayed home and cooked while Esau was in the fields and went hunting. Nowhere does it say that was not okay. So why does our patriarchal society insist that it is?

The amazing thing about nearly all of the major shifts in religious thought after 1770 include war as a reason for change. And when the cold war ended, even that resulted in "new" things to fear--the occult, liberals, judgment. If we have nothing to fear, then religious pundits can't control how we think. So whom do we fear then? Why, God, of course. It's all throughout the bible. The language means to heed and obey, but the word in English is perverted to create masses of easily manipulated and controlled people. As a minister, and a very liberal one, it makes me sad to see people be hurt by the church. Children aren't taught that they can and should think for themselves, and far too many churches perpetuate the problem. Thanks for the podcast. I am enjoying bingeing on it.