#Sean McDowell

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As Christians we need to work on compassion to those who experience same sex attraction and/or gender dysphoria.

[the-dreamer-poet]

What is spiritual abuse and why is it so vital we address it today? Sean interview Dr. Michael Kruger about his latest book: Bully Pulpit.

But I would encourage us to rethink what it means to “love the church.” What if loving the church means we want her to be sanctified so she reflects Christ’s beauty even more? What if loving the church means we love the sheep—whom Christ loves—and guard them against the wolves Christ asked us to watch out for? What if loving the church means we address the things that mar her reputation in front of a watching world? In other words, the fact that the church is the beloved bride of Christ is not a reason to care less about her shortcomings; it’s a reason to care more. Indeed, the church is the most important institution on the planet.

Dr. Michael Kruger

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The Unshakeable Truth by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell

The Unshakeable Truth by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell — In a world brimming with uncertainty, “The Unshakeable Truth” by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell stands as a beacon of clarity for believers and seekers alike. This comprehensive guide delves into the 12 foundational truths of Christianity, offering a robust framework for understanding and defending one’s faith. The Unshakeable Truth by…

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relationship is best teacher

I decided to ask my dad (author Josh McDowell) how he was really feeling when I told him about my doubt years earlier, assuming he must have been deeply concerned at the time. Was he worried I might abandon my faith? What was actually going through his mind? His response caught me off guard. He told me that he wasn’t worried about my faith journey because of the depth of our relationship. While…

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Links & Quotes

Some links and quotes that caught my eye this week.

Are you looking for a Christmas gift for your pastor? Check out my book Shepherd Leadership. I have lots of new content every week, which you can check out on my YouTube channel. “We rise no higher when we pull others down, yet when we stoop to serve, we conquer.” —Dick Brogden, in Proverbs: Amplified and Applied  “Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice…

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Did You Hear About The Dramatic Fall Of The New Atheism?

Signs are abounding that something of a spiritual rebirth is gathering strength in the West, especially the U.S. and the U.K., and, according to Justin Brierley, and, somewhat ironically, one of the prompts of this renewal is the decline of the once-prominent New Atheism movement. Dr. Sean McDowell, Biola University Professor of Apologetics. “While it started in about 2005, I noticed that the…

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I always forget that Sean Bean is in the Silent Hill films. like that was very much a role that he had. for two movies

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Cult Faction Podcast Ep. 125: Class of 1999

This week we shine our spotlight on Mark L. Lester’s Class of 1999 where three ex-military robots are reprogrammed as teachers and secretly placed in a school where most students are part of organized gangs, but what happens when they respond violently to unruly students?  It stars Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, John P. Ryan, Pam Grier, Patrick Kilpatrick, Stacy Keach, Malcolm McDowell, Joshua John…

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Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...Halloween II (2009) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #horror #halloween #halloweenii #johncarpenter #michaelmyers #theshape #robzombie #tylermane #sherimoonzombie #scouttaylorcompton #danielleharris #chasewrightvanek #MalcolmMcDowell #carolinewilliams #DanielRoebuck #MargotKidder #jeffdanielphillips #RichardBrake #RichardRiehle #weirdalyankovic #MarkBooneJunior #SilasWeirMitchell #SeanWhalen #OctaviaSpencer #breagrant #angelatrimbur #HowardHesseman #mattlinz #BillFagerbakke #2000s #dvd #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsashorrorshow

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New episode! This one takes a look at the difficulties in following up the 2006 cult classic 'Silent Hill', and all the very bad advice director MJ Bassett got in adapting its sequel from game to film!

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The Man-She of Inisherin - sorry, Illyria!

TWELFTH NIGHT The Attic Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Sunday 2nd April 2023 When Viola washes up from a shipwreck, she believes her twin brother to have perished and so she dons male clothing and finds work running errands for the local duke.  Director John Robert Partridge gives his Illyria and Oirish setting, bejabbers, a world of greenery and pub furniture.  For the most part, it works very…

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Doomsday will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on September 17 via Scream Factroy. The 2008 post-apocalyptic sci-fi action film pays homage to Mad Max and Escape from New York.

Neil Marshall (The Descent, Game of Thrones) writes and directs. Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, David O'Hara, and Malcolm McDowell star.

The theatrical cut is presented on 4K from the original digital intermediate, presented in Dolby Vision. The unrated version is also included on Blu-ray. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Theatrical version (109 minutes)

Audio commentary by World Gone Wild: A Survivor's Guide to Post-Apocalyptic Movies author David J. Moore (new)

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Theatrical version (109 minutes)

Audio commentary by World Gone Wild: A Survivor's Guide to Post-Apocalyptic Movies author David J. Moore (new)

Interview with writer-director Neil Marshall (new)

Interview with producer Benedict Carver (new)

Interview with actor Craig Conway (new)

Interview with production designer Simon Bowles (new)

Interview with special effects makeup designer Paul Hyett (new)

Interview with composer Tyler Bates (new)

Disc 3 - Blu-ray:

Unrated version (113 minutes)

Audio commentary by writer-director Neil Marshall and actors Sean Pertwee, Darren Morfitt, Rick Warden, and Les Simpson

Interview with actor Adrian Lester (new)

Anatomy of Catastrophe: Civilization on the Brink

The Visual Effects and Wizardry of Doomsday

Devices Of Death: Guns, Gadgets, and Vehicles of Destruction

Image gallery

Trailer

To save humanity from a viral epidemic, an elite fighting unit must battle to find a cure in a post-apocalyptic zone controlled by a society of murderous renegades.

Pre-order Doomsday.

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More than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell

More than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell - In a world teeming with skepticism and doubt, the quest for meaning and purpose remains a central pursuit for many. Amidst this backdrop, “More than a Carpenter” by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell emerges as a beacon of hope, offering profound insights into the person of Jesus Christ and the claims of Christianity.

More than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell – In a world teeming with skepticism and doubt, the quest for meaning and purpose remains a central pursuit for many. Amidst this backdrop, “More than a Carpenter” by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell emerges as a beacon of hope, offering profound insights into the person of Jesus Christ and the claims of Christianity. More than a Carpenter…

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2023 Books in Review

a tiered ranking of all the books i read in 2023! originally i was going to write up my commentary on each one but then i was like hahaha.....no, so below the cut is just a list of the titles/authors in each tier instead.

changed my brain chemistry

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang

The Borrowed, Chan Ho-kei (trans. Jeremy Tiang)

My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier

Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (trans. Ken Liu)

The Membranes, Chi Ta-wei (trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich)

Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng

Severance, Ling Ma

He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan

Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)

Network Effect, Martha Wells

top-tier stuff

Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell)

Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt

The Door, Magda Szabo (trans. Len Rix)

The Lover, Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray)

Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

Strange Beasts of China, Yan Ge (trans. Jeremy Tiang)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu

Tell Me I’m Worthless, Alison Rumfitt

Bliss Montage, Ling Ma

How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin

My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante

The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

good, well-written

Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu

Life Ceremony, Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)

Yellowface, R. F. Kuang

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

Assassin of Reality, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)

Witch King, Martha Wells

Tokyo Ueno Station, Miri Yu (trans. Morgan Giles)

Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi

Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi

Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

The Pachinko Parlor, Elisa Shua Dusapin (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins)

All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Fugitive Telemetry, and System Collapse (Murderbot #1-4, #6-7), Martha Wells

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee

The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye)

Gods of Want, K-Ming Chang

Paradais, Fernanda Melchor (trans. Sophie Hughes)

The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency, Chen Chen

The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon

Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

An Unauthorised Fan Treatise, Lauren James

Upstream, Mary Oliver

The Art of Death, Edwidge Danticat

Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison

alphabet, Inger Christensen (trans. Susanna Nied)

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

flawed, but enjoyable

The Wicker King, K. Ancrum

Exit West, Mohsin Hamid

Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters

Flux, Jinwoo Chong

Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Aubrey Wood

The Murder of Mr. Wickham, Claudia Gray

Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang

The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson

Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Likeness, Tana French

The Cabinet, Un-su Kim (trans. Sean Lin Halbert)

The Kingdom of Surfaces, Sally Wen Mao

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Franny Choi

good, well-written, but not my cup of tea

The Good House, Tananarive Due

The Transmigration of Bodies, Yuri Herrera (trans. Lisa Dillman)

Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (trans. Olena Bormashenko)

The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan

At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop (trans. Anna Moschovakis)

Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Jenny McPhee)

The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo

The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier (trans. Harriet de Onís)

Against Silence, Frank Bidart

flawed, less enjoyable

Tenth of December, George Saunders

Counterweight, Djuna (trans. Anton Hur)

Authority, Jeff VanderMeer

Comfort Me with Apples, Catherynne M. Valente

Babel, R. F. Kuang

The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang

Carrie Soto Is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid

not ranking

These are nonfiction and they aren’t literature-related, so it just felt weird trying to rank them.

Visual Thinking, Temple Grandin

On Web Typography, Jason Santa Maria

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo (trans. Cathy Hirano)

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ok @minetteskvareninova & @caleblandrybones as promised here's everything i can find on the filming of heaven knows what & the whole "pretending to be homeless" thing. surprisingly after not finding any of the old articles i remember reading in my reblogs the first mention of it i managed to find was actually in a more recent interview i was just reading for funsies & didn't expect to be relevant here:

Though he has no formal Method training, Jones harks back to that tradition – especially in this era of actors as bland, gym-pumped corporate ambassadors. He was recommended to intensity merchants the Safdie brothers for the role of Ilya, the blade-hurling junkie in their 2014 heroin memoir Heaven Knows What on the basis that: “He will do what you need him to do in terms of immersing himself.” He hit the New York streets to understand the vagrant’s life. “I was panhandling a little bit and made $150 in a day.” You suspect there may have been the odd Landry Jones fan among the donors. He didn’t, though, as some have speculated online, go as far as shooting up as part of his preparation: “I worked with Malcolm McDowell [on Antiviral] and he told me: ‘You don’t need to do that shit. You can just be an actor.’”

this interview doesn't really get into his experience staying on the street but is kid of like a precursor to the experience that i found interesting bcus i'd actually never read about their first time meeting before:

So you met him in person for the first time when he arrives for the shoot? Josh Safdie: Yes. His agent asked us to put him in a fancy hotel and stuff. We rolled up to the hotel [that first night].

Ben Safdie: Everybody [from the cast] ended up staying at that hotel soon enough.

Josh Safdie: Yeah, he had a lot of people in that room. Everyone from the street was in his hotel room, they were throwing bottles out the window. So, we pull up to this stoop, and he was sitting in front of the hotel and asked immediately, “Why am I staying at this hotel?” And we were like, “Well, because your agent said…”

Ben Safdie: He said, “I thought you guys were real.”

Josh Safdie: “I thought this was going to be like a real situation. Where are Ari and Ilya staying?” It was about five degrees out, and I said, “Well, because it’s so cold, they stay at this Internet café on Eldridge.” He goes, “I’m going there.” I said, “Well, let’s hang out first.” We took him over to Sean’s house, and we watched a bunch of movies. And then I dropped him off back at his hotel and said, “Tomorrow I’ll introduce you to Ari and Ilya.”

But he didn’t go back to his room. He went and found the Internet café and got time on a computer, and stared at Ilya, the real Ilya, while he was passed out. He had known what he looked like, so he just stared at him and watched how he slept and everything. Arielle wasn’t there that night … Then the next day, I introduced him.

Ben Safdie: That first meeting, we were all sitting at a McDonald’s, and Caleb was just kind of witnessing Ari and the real Ilya. He was very careful not to say anything or do anything — he was just watching them. And, for me, that’s when I realized that he was going to be able to do it, because of the way he was watching. Every once in a while he would say something; he knew what to say to get Ilya on his side, not that it was phony in the slightest — he just knows people. That’s what you’d hope from an actor. He would say things and slowly work his way into the world.

also "At this point, Caleb was fully in costume, looked a lot like Ilya. He showered once, the entire shoot, maybe. He smelled horrible." lmao the dedication.

this one also isn't the one i was looking for where they actually talk about his experience prepping for the role but it does get mentioned:

Benny: I heard that on Contraband he got arrested and cost production a lot of money because he was sitting in jail for three days. For Heaven Knows What, he was upset that we gave him a hotel room. He wanted to stay on the streets immediately with everybody. He’s like, “If I’m going to be playing a kid on the streets, I want to be living with them.” Eventually, he found them and hung out in the streets. But when they found out he had a hotel room, everybody went back to his hotel room and he kind of fit in perfectly. You could see him observing and understanding everything.

i SWEAR back in like 2015 i remember reading another interview where they actually talked directly to caleb about his time filming but i cannot fucking find it & i've dug through literally every interview i was able to find for this movie. also totally disregard what i said in my tags earlier about "wasn't it filming for this when he met katya" bcus once i used my brain cells for 2 seconds i realized that doesn't make any sense timeline wise so it wasdefinitely a different time he looked homeless ig (lmfao???) bcus i distinctly remember him saying she thought he was homeless & didn't believe he was an actor but i will be attempting to dig up that interview later rn i need a break from looking at screens bye

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