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Reviewing Squid Game 3 (Podcast)
Read more: Reviewing Squid Game 3 (Podcast)Spoiler alert and content warning! In this episode we review the third season of the smash hit Korean show on Netflix, Squid Game. As we debrief our experience watching the third season, we talk about the crazy ending, what surprised us the most about what the third season did and didn’t do, what we appreciated…
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The Anti-Greed Gospel with Rev. Dr. Malcolm Foley (Podcast)
Read more: The Anti-Greed Gospel with Rev. Dr. Malcolm Foley (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Rev. Dr. Malcolm Foley, Pastor at Mosaic Waco, Special Advisor to the President for Equity and Campus Engagement at Baylor University, and the author of The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward (published…
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Squid Game 2 (Podcast)
Read more: Squid Game 2 (Podcast)In this episode we discuss the second season of the hit Netflix show, Squid Game. We chat about what we appreciated most about season 2 relative to season 1, how this season builds upon previous questions that the show raises about capitalism and makes the stakes more jarring as we think about its effects on…
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Squid Game Review (Podcast)
Read more: Squid Game Review (Podcast)In this episode we discuss our appreciation of, and enduring fascination with, Netflix’s breakout South Korean horror-drama, Squid Game. We discuss the show’s critique of capitalism and connect this with the historical and theological insights of Albert Hirschman and Kathryn Tanner on capitalism. We also delve further into the ways that show portrays how the…
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Critical Theory & Ethics with Dr. Matthew Arbo (Podcast)
Read more: Critical Theory & Ethics with Dr. Matthew Arbo (Podcast)Following up on our previous conversation on Critical Theory from last week (“Understanding Critical Theory with Dr. Scott Coley”), in this episode Amber Bowen, John Anthony Dunne, and Logan Williams are joined by ethicist and political theologian, Dr. Matthew Arbo, who is Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Oklahoma Baptist University. Over the course of…
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A Theological Critique of Conservative Politics
Read more: A Theological Critique of Conservative PoliticsDisclaimer time: the views expressed here do not represent you know, whoever disagrees with them. Oliver O’Donovan’s The Desire of Nations is a difficult but spectacular book that seeks to ‘rediscover the roots of political theology’. It is essentially a long theological exposition of the concept of authority in the Bible, with a focus on…