story March 31, 2011 0 CommentsThe Adjustment Bureau
In a conversation a few years back, movie producer Ralph Winter told me a good movie always leaves you with questions. My friend Jason Hildebrand and I recently enjoyed a guys’ night out at the cinema and experienced a film that does just that. The Adjustment Bureau raises some great questions!
podcast June 28, 2011 0 CommentsSuperheroes Unmasked
In the final podcast of the season, the Kindlings Muse Canada West explores the appeal of comic book caped-crusaders. Do the myth and mystery of superhero stories parallel the salvation narrative that C.S. Lewis called “the one true myth”? Host Bill Hogg anchors mainstay panelists Dr. Allyson Jule, Peter T. Chattaway, and Kevin Miller and they unpack superhero stereotypes and the messages the offer about salvation and society.
podcast May 30, 2011 0 CommentsTV Talk
The archetypal Leave it to Beaver family is absent from prime time programming; instead, nontraditional families have made their way to the forefront of our televisions. As HBO’s polygamist family of Big Love wraps up its 5-season run, TLC offers us the Brown family, practicing polygamists of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints faith. The Big Bang Theory and Grey’s Anatomy follow young professionals who form community in the absence of loving family.
podcast March 28, 2011 0 CommentsCompassionate Consumerism?
In the shadow of a strained world economy, savvy organizations are shifting from the non-profit sector into for-profit ventures. These emerging initiatives are shaking off donation dependency to create self-sustaining programs. In this rousing episode of The Kindlings Muse Canada West we look at microcredit enterprises for women in Rwanda and companies like TOMS Shoes, whose one-for-one program provides a child in the developing world with a pair of shoes whenever a pair of the shoes is purchased.
