HeyJaredGrasping at Echoes
An indie filmmaker's rambles on theology, media, and their intersection.
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“Dual Integrities” is the Christian Way (opens the original)
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I am a member of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), and I am exhausted by our online representation. Perhaps it’s just my Twitter and Facebook algorithms promoting what they know will annoy me in hopes of prompting my engagement, but were I to judge the ACNA by its loudest digital voices, I would assume it is a miserable cesspool populated primarily by ponderous middle-aged men who hate women and anonymous young men who are terrified of them. Mercifully, I attend an ACNA church and kno
Saint Mick Production Journal #13 (opens the original)
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There are so many steps to making a movie, but we have fewer remaining than ever before. Some weeks ago, Saint Mick was officially picture locked, which means we are now in the final stages of post-production.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" heig
The Odyssey is a Timely Gut-Punch (opens the original)
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Spoilers follow for The Odyssey and Nolan’s Oppenheimer.Okay I’ve got to be honest, as a filmmaker with a Substack, I feel somewhat obligated to write a review of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, but I genuinely didn’t expect to have this much to say. There is no shortage of headlines labeling Nolan’s latest outing as “triumphant,” “victorious,” or any other spirit-raising synonym, and I’d like to know what movie those reviewers watched. I left The Odyssey&
Star Wars is the Key to Understanding The Bible (opens the original)
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Following from the explorations in my previous post,1 today I’d like to bring some famous fiction to bear and explore how The Hobbit can help us understand the challenging notion that the risen Jesus is the first principle of Christian theology, rather than a theological conclusion, and how Star Wars can give us a better handle on what it means for something to be “canonical.”You may <a href="https://bennty.substack.com/p/the-bible-vs-scripture"
The Bible vs Scripture (opens the original)
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Growing up as an Episcopalian, the church of my childhood sounded like the 1979 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. Despite all the internal disunity of modern Anglicanism, the BCP (in all its various editions) remains the shining star of the Anglican tradition and sets an unparalleled rhythm for prayer practice, both personal and corporate. However, the repetitive nature of the liturgy brings with it the danger of semantic satiation, which is the fancy term for that phenomenon where a word or
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