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1 week ago | 
geeksundergrace.com | Johnathan Floyd |Andrew Borck |Clearly Christian |Tyler Hummel
Subjectivism is a dirty word when one is discussing matters of religion. Modern philosophy has worked to pathologize religion as mere sense experience with little relation to objective reality, and much of religious sensation has been rendered moot as evidence for the divine.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Spencer Patterson |Joe Morgan |Andrew Borck |Lexi Tucker
This is the fifth in a multi-part article series running from November 1 to Epiphany. It discusses the themes and meaning of Christmas movies, digs into specific tropes, and unpacks the true nature of Christmas. The first, second, third, and fourth essays can be found here. If someone asked you what the most financially successful Christmas movie of all time was, what movie would you guess? It is a difficult question to answer due to the way Hollywood accounting works.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Andrew Borck |Lexi Tucker |Spencer Patterson |Tyler Hummel
If you’re anything like me, your tools at home are rudimentary at best. Mine are scattered in three separate bags and backpacks across the house and finding the right tool for each job often turns into its own scavenger hunt. The team at BlackZero has found a way to give you everything you’ll need for most common home maintenance in a pretty slick kit, ensuring everything stays neatly organized and easily accessible.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Noel Dávila |Andrew Borck
Dallas Jenkins has built an empire in the Christian filmmaking world in just a few short years. From his early years in ministry at Harvest Bible Chapel, to faith-based films like Hometown Legend and The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, to launching the largest faith-based television project in history, he’s accomplished much in the past decade. Considering his father Jerry Jenkins was already world-renowned as the author of the Left Behind books, he’s done a remarkable job making a name for himself.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Andrew Borck |Lexi Tucker |Spencer Patterson |Tyler Hummel
This is the third entry in a multi-part article series running from November 1 to Epiphany. It discusses the themes and meaning of Christmas movies, digs into specific tropes, and unpacks the true nature of Christmas. The first essay can be found here and the second essay can be found here. One of my favorite experiences as an adult satiating his wanderlust was my opportunity to visit the famous Christmas Story House in Ohio.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Noel Dávila |Andrew Borck
This year brought one of the strangest surprises of recent memory, the most critically acclaimed Transformersfilm in the history of the venerable franchise. But that success was undermined by it becoming one of the year’s biggest box office failures.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Noel Dávila |Andrew Borck
I’ve recently been mulling over the idea of film as a liturgy. I don’t mean this in the literal sense, suggesting film is sacred in and of itself. It just struck me that films have a way of becoming annual traditions. Watching It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown every Halloween, A Christmas Story on Christmas Eve, Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day, or 1776 on Independence Day are things I choose to do every year because they bring structure.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Noel Dávila |Tyler Hummel |Andrew Borck |Spencer Patterson
Images have a very complicated place in Christianity. Older traditions like the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church adamantly defend the belief that the incarnation of Christ created a need to worship Christ and honor saints through images. With the onset of the Reformation, the Reformed and Calvinist traditions began to consider image veneration a form of idolatry and a violation of the Second Commandment.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Andrew Borck |Lexi Tucker |Spencer Patterson |Tyler Hummel
This is the second in a multi-part article series running from November 1 to Epiphany. It discusses the themes and meaning of Christmas movies, digs into specific tropes, and unpacks the true nature of Christmas. The first essay can be found here. In the last article, we briefly touched upon the question of Christmas itself in relation to the nature of Christmas movies.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Andrew Borck |or Meh |Juliana Purnell |Tyler Hummel
2024’s awards season has already begun! With the 2025 Academy Awards just a few months away on March 2nd, Oscar buzz has already begun accumulating around upcoming films like Anora, Gladiator II, The Brutalist, Wicked, Challengers, and Dune II. Surprisingly, one of the year’s potential major contenders just dropped in late October.
