Radio

Like a head football coach pouring over game film to dissect the opposing team, we have picked apart the critically panned 2003 movie with Ed Harris and Cuba Gooding Jr., “Radio.” We wind up disagreeing with the critics, like old men arguing down at the barber shop. No joke here: This is a surprisingly good movie. Our shopping cart is filled with interesting worldview items like Biblical ethics and a willingness to defy human conventions and law-givers.

Is it destiny or mere random chance that we’re reviewing Forrest Gump today? Can it be both? (Um, no, it can’t.) Life can be like a box of chocolates from our point of view, but our God knows the end from the beginning, and He really does have a plan in place, and solid reasons for every decree in whatever comes to pass. It’s like doubles ping-pong on this show with all four contributors at once. Maybe you can listen while you’re running long distances for no particular reason. Is the world of Forrest Gump the same world that God created? The points of the Biblical covenant will tell the tale.

“We take no prisoners in this episode, leaving only weeping and sorrow in our path, as we ransack The History Channel’s popular series, “Vikings.” Just hand over your worldview peacefully, and no blood needs be spilled.

Pillage and plunder (and the occasional rape here and there) imply the unlawful taking of things; but, is it possible this series is covertly handing you something in every episode, in terms of pagan presuppositions?”

It’s often a sticky situation, discerning the underlying worldview that a movie is preaching. In fact, it can drive lesser mortals to climb the walls. In the absence of one our regular podcasters, our oldest daughter, Carmen, swings in to save the day. In this episode, teen outcast (with fabulous hair and super-model good looks,) Peter Parker loses his parents to a shadowy conspiracy; is invisible to girls; gets bitten by a radioactive spider; gains powers; makes way for his uncle to be murdered; befriends a handicapped mad scientist; gets the girl; makes the girl’s dad want to arrest him; fights a giant, angry lizard who only wants to help the human race evolve; remembers to get organic egss for Aunt May; and saves the world.

Our hand-picked, clandestine team of worldview cryptologists has managed to do more than anyone imagined of us, by cracking the Enigma that is The Imitation Game. We made good use of our “touring” through the British landscape during WW2 and have uncovered key elements to the presuppositions that lie beneath this movie, thus knocking a probable two solid years off of your own wondering about it.