The Christ-IN Culture
A podcast that uses secular pop culture as a means of evangelization.
We found 10 episodes of The Christ-IN Culture with the tag “magic”.
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The Story We Tell
May 30th, 2020 | Season 3 | 55 mins 18 secs
#andamovie, adam sandler, addiction, adore, adventure, avatar the last airbender, backstory, benjamin berman, book, carrot top, catholic, celebrity, chris angel, christ, christian, comedy, communion, community, culture, death, dollop, dolphins, drug, dungeons and dragons, ego, egypt, emptiness, eric andre, evangelization, faith, family, father, film, gloomhaven, god, greece, hardcore history, have a good trip, heart disease, history, humility, internship, jesus, johnathan szeles, life, lore, mad men, magic, magician, mountains of madness, movie, music, myths and legends, penn jillette, performer, podcast, pride, producer, purpose, reality, reconciliation, rome, spiritual, story, the amazing johnathan, uncut gems, unsolved murders, void, weird al, welcome to the adventure
This week we discuss the Documentary 'The Amazing Johnathan' about the Comedian/magician of the same name. From Johnathan's life, we see themes of spiritual emptiness, absence of a father figure, coping mechanisms, and a loss of a sense of purpose which many of us can relate to in our own way. But the documentary takes a turn leaving us wondering, "what's the story they are telling?" #WelcomeToTheAdventure
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O For Onward
April 11th, 2020 | Season 3 | 1 hr 2 mins
adventure, angels and demons, barley lightfoot, beowulf, bob's burgers, bold, book, bright, catholic, champion, chris pratt, christ, christian, confident, covid-19, culture, dad, dan brown, davinci code, disney, dragons, drive, dungeon, dungeons and dragons, easter, elf, epic, evangelization, faith, family, fantasy, father, god, heart, holy week, hope, ian lightfoot, inferno, jesus, john ratzenburger, journey, julia louis-dreyfus, lent, listen, love, luke spehar, magic, manticore, minotaur, movie, music, onward, origin, phoenix stone, pixar, podcast, prayer, quarantine, quest, robert langdon, staff, strength, sword, tom holland, trust, unicorn, warrior, welcome to the adventure, zoom
As we come out of Holy Week and into the joyous season of Easter, we cover a movie that embraces the same loss and journey of finding our Father: Disney Pixar's Onward. Even with it being Easter, Covid-19, the pandemic, & this quarentine makes finding our heavenly father a little more difficult. So tune in this week to see what we can take away from this quest to end all quests. #WelcomeToTheAdventure
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Into The Unknown
December 14th, 2019 | Season 3 | 1 hr 8 mins
adventure, agnarr, air, alan tudyk, all is found, animated, anna, arendelle, attachment, autumn, baptism, book, call, catholic, change, christ, christian, culture, dam, discernment, disney, earth, elsa, emotion, evan rachel wood, evangelization, faith, fall, fire, fjord, forest, frozen, giant, god, horse, ice, idina menzel, iduna, into the unknown, jesus, jonathan groff, josh gad, journey, king, kingdom, kristen anderson-lopez, kristen bell, kristoff, lost in the woods, love, lullaby, magic, memory, movie, music, musical, northuldra, olaf, orphans, parents, podcast, princess, prophet, propose, queen, reason, reindeer, reindeers are better than people, ring, river, robert lopez, sequel, ship, siren, snow, snowman, somethings never change, spirit, sven, the next right thing, thomas aquinas, transformation, troll, true, truth, unknown, vocation, water, welcome to the adventure
This week we go "Into the Unknown" as we discuss the new Disney movie "Frozen II." Join the adventure as Clint and Gordon attempt to sing like Disney princesses, we record one of the longest episodes we have ever done, and Clint spends way too much time using a new editing trick. We discuss Vocations, discernment, attachment and more themes than we can mention here, so just check it out for yourself! SPOILERS #WelcomeToTheAdventure
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Ep. 78: Grindelwald - Father Of Lies
April 13th, 2019 | Season 2 | 56 mins 53 secs
1920, abernathy, action, adventure, anime, asterix, book, camera, catholic, cheat, christ, christian, clerically speaking, comics, consequentialism, credence, culture, d&d, dale and tucker, death, deceipt, dice, dumbledor, dungeons & dragons, eddie redmayne, evangelization, ezra miller, faith, family, fantastic beasts, flamel, glass, god, goldstein, grindelwald, harry potter, howl's moving castle, identity, into the spiderverse, jacob kowalski, jesus, johnny depp, lestrange, leta, lies, love, magic, marvel, mcu, ministry, morality, movie, muggle, murder, music, my neighbor totoro, nagini, nazi, netflix, newt, paris, podcast, pokemon, quennie, russian doll, scamander, spider-man, spiderman, spielman, the crimes of grindelwald, theseus, tina, truth, umbrella academy, war, welcome to the adventure, wizard, yugioh!, yusuf kama, zoe kravitz
What do you get when a Newt, a creed and a Grindelwald walk into a Nazi Rally? Find out on this week's episode on the "Crimes of Grindelwald" where we discuss love, identity, and morality within the magical world. #WelcomeToTheAdventure
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Ep. 68: I'll Meet You At The Delta
February 2nd, 2019 | Season 2 | 1 hr 5 mins
adam, adoration, adventure, album, band, beloved, book, botw, breath of the wild, c.s. lewis, catholic, christ, christian, cs lewis, culture, cysmic, darkness, delta, eden, evangelization, eve, faith, folk, forever, game, god, heart, jesus, legend, legend of zelda, lewis, light, lost, love, magic, maze, movie, mumford, mumford & sons, music, paradise, podcast, prayer, punisher, sin, sons, story, struggle, super smash bros, surrender, temptation, truth, voyage of the dawn treader, welcome to the adventure, wild, zelda
We often encounter change within our own spiritual and physical lives. This change can be drastic, small, quick, and/or long. Either way it is typically a switch from chaos to peace and vice versa. As we dive into Mumford & Sons fourth studio album Delta, we see that in the struggle of change God always meets us where we're at. #WelcometotheAdventure
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Ep. 66: How's It Going To End?
January 19th, 2019 | Season 2 | 51 mins 24 secs
adventure, alice isn't dead, aquaman, book, bright sessions, brother isaiah, burbank, catholic, christ, christian, christof, culture, dc, dc comics, death by magic, evangelization, faith, fake, fool us, god, good afternoon, good evening, good morning, good night, jesus, jim carrey, laurel, lies, luthor, magic, mary, movie, music, names, outlander, penn, podcast, reality, request, sante maria, satan, silvia, spiritual battle, struggle, teller, trapped, truman, truman burbank, truman show, truth, welcome to the adventure, you made it weird
"We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that." -Christof
In this episode we tackle a recommended Jim Carrey classic: The Truman Show. Through the discussion of a movie about lies and truth, we learn a little more about the greater story that surrounds us all. #WelcometotheAdventure -
Ep. 61: A Season of Dance
December 15th, 2018 | Season 2 | 54 mins 18 secs
advent, adventure, apprentice, art, ballet, bishop robert barron, book, c.s., c.s. lewis, catholic, celebration, christ, christian, christmas, chronicles of narnia, clara, cost, cs lewis, culture, dance, december, disney, evangelization, fairies, faith, four realms, fr. mike schmitz, fritz, god, homilies, inheritance, insidious, jesus, joy, key, kingdom, land of sweets, last kingdom, lewis, magic, maria, mouse, mouse king, movie, music, nutcracker, office, podcast, rat king, rats, sacrifice, silver chair, sugarplum, tchaikovsky, toy soldiers, toymaker, welcome to the adventure, wolverine, word on fire, x-men
This week we dive into what is now an annual Christmas classic. We look into the dance of ballet and what it reveals about & to us. We also look at the story told through the narrative of The Nutcracker and its many variations to the lore. #WelcometotheAdventure
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Ep. 60: The Light In The Wound
December 8th, 2018 | Season 2 | 56 mins 46 secs
acq. inc., acquisitions, action, adventure, bohemian, bohemian rhapsody, book, broken, camera, catholic, celtic, celtic thunder, celtic woman, chris pine, christ, christian, comic, conception, culture, d&d, darkness, december, dice, discipleship, disney, dragons, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, emperor, emperor's edge, evangelization, evil deception, faith, family, feast, fr. dave pivonka, gaelic, game, god, high kings, hiking the camino, immaculate, incorporated, irish, jesus, lies, light, love god, magic, mindy kaling, movie, music, office, oprah, oprah winfrey, pax, podcast, reese witherspoon, renaissance, request, rhapsody, roleplaying, rpg, social media, solitude, space, spiritual, tabletop, tesseract, thomas merton, thoughts in solitude, time, travel, trinity, truth, universe, welcome to the adventure, wounds, wrinkle in time
Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception! As requested by several of you, this week we discuss the movie 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Join us on the adventure this week as we discuss love, brokenness and the spirituality of healing. #WelcometotheAdventure
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Ep. 53: The Episode That Lived ft. Mackenzie Young
October 20th, 2018 | Season 2 | 51 mins 56 secs
accountability, adventure, book, catholic, christ, christian, complimentarity, converts, culture, discipleship, evangelization, faith, family, femininity, focus, friendship, ginny weasley, god, granger, guest, harry potter, hermione, jesus, magic, masculinity, missionary, movie, music, podcast, potter, radical hospitality, relationships, ron weasley, sirius black, weasley, welcome to the adventure
"I have an encyclopedic knowledge of Harry Potter. Don't quote me on that." - Mackenzie Young
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Episode 31: It's More Than A Game (SAO)
May 19th, 2018 | Season 1 | 48 mins
adam, adventure, anime, asuna, augmented reality, avatar, avengers, battle, beloved, book, boss, catholic, christ, christian, church, coma, community, consequence, culture, david a. wells, death, death gun, despair, disney, dual wield, evangelization, evil, faith, family, fantasy, fight, fishing, francis, friendship, game, god, god's beloved, good, guild, gun gale online, helmet, henri nouwen, hero, infinity war, japan, jesus, kirito, klein, laurel, leafa, lisbeth, love, magic, marvel, mmo, mmorpg, movie, music, nerve gear, nouwen, oberon, player, podcast, pope, pope francis, promise, pure, reality, rest, rpg, sacrifice, sao, self, shape of water, sinon, sovereign of the seven isles, sword, sword art online, thinblade, video games, virtual reality, warrior, welcome to the adventure, yanny, yui
Just this week Pope Francis was asked about the youth of the Church and said that "It worries me that they communicate and live in the virtual world...Their reality is that...not human contact. This is serious. We have to make young people 'land' in the real world. Touch reality." Ironically, this week we talk about the virtual world of the popular Anime Show 'Sword Art Online' (SAO).