Thank you to everyone for tuning into today’s Pop Culture Pastors Hour! What a rich film… We went everywhere from Christian Nationalism to Rick Astley, and there was stuff we didn’t even get to!

A few items referenced:

Christ and Culture (book), H. Richard Niebuhr

Disobedient Women (book), Sarah Stankorb

The Four Shapes of Transformation, Richard Rohr

See you in January, for discussions of Pluribus (AppleTV+) and Lord of the Rings. Please note that moving forward, we’ll be hosting these conversations at our Pop Culture Pastors Hour dedicated feed. Subscribe there for all the latest.

Here’s last Sunday’s sermon on Matthew 2:13-23. Synopsis: Herod was an awful dude who killed lots of people and if anything, the scripture undersold what a brutal paranoid tyrant he was. But all is not lost, because maybe it also undersold the other side?

Hat tip to Howard Thurman’s The Work of Christmas, and Carrie Newcomer’s story about Christmas in the bar at 2 a.m. Also my friend Chris Tuttle of Westminster Presbyterian in Durham NC for his research into Herod, much of which came from the book Jerusalem: A Biography.

Thanks for listening. Steady on.

Thank you Michael Moore, Marion Hardwick, Capitol Jill, and many others for tuning into our latest episode! Our lists of favorite pastor portrayals (and two dishonorable mentions) ran the gamut from cozy book series to acerbic satire and everything in between.

Join us Wednesday 12/31 at 11 a.m. for a discussion of the movie that inspired today’s conversation: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, available on Netflix. Here’s the link to join us.

And if you haven’t, check out our dedicated Pop Culture Pastors Hour page, where we’ll be putting all of these conversations (once we work out some kinks).

Happy New Year!