Think Christian
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How might your pop culture fandom resonate with your faith? Josh Larsen, editor of Think Christian, talks with TC writers about the latest in TV, movies, music, and more, exploring the ways popular culture and its cultivators interact with God’s story.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Think Christian turns detailed cultural criticism into thoughtful Christian reflection without reducing films, television, or music to sermon illustrations.
Josh Larson treats popular culture as material for close theological attention, framing each conversation before bringing in contributors with distinct readings.
Severance's split selves meet Jesus' two-masters warning, if your TV theories have a soul.
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A sharp Stevie Wonder discussion that folds faith, criticism, and album history into one easy listen.
Josh Larson, Catherine, and Eric do more than recap Stevie Wonder's 1972-76 run. The Wonder of Stevie treats those albums as living records, with faith and criticism sitting in the same room.
A Star Wars discussion about obedience, grace, and the Jedi's role in policing power.
The Acolyte episode uses Star Wars to open a larger discussion of religious authority, obedience, and grace. Josh Larson, with Joe George and Abby Olchesi, moves from a Jedi temple, a miracle birth, and a figure offering absolution to the question at the center of the show: what…
A thoughtful horror conversation that treats devil movies as a cultural symptom, not just a genre gimmick.
Think Christian uses Apartment 7A to start a wider conversation about why devil movies have been so hard to miss lately. It ties the Paramount Plus prequel to a 2024 stretch that includes Immaculate, Deliverance, Late Night with the Devil, and Long Legs, then draws on Josh…
Coco and All Souls Day anchor a faith-and-film conversation shaped by liturgy, remembrance, and Abbey Olchesi's book.
Josh Larson frames All Souls Day around Abbey Olchesi's recently published Films for All Seasons and a discussion of Pixar's Coco with Abbey and Claude Acho.
A Chance the Rapper check-in centered on family memory, faith, and community concerns.
Josh Larson and Claude Acho use a long-awaited Chance the Rapper mixtape to open a measured conversation about where he stands after four singles since March.
A reflective best-of-2024 movie roundtable that links standout films to faith, bodies, and pressure.
Josh Larson closes Think Christian's best of 2024 run with Rosalyn Hernandez and J.R. Forasteros in a conversation that keeps returning to how movies press on faith and ordinary life.
The episode reframes winning through woundedness, service, and the finish line shared with others.
Think Christian starts with a Nike commercial tied to the 2024 Olympics and uses it to ask a plain but hard question: what does winning mean for Christians?
A thoughtful Twin Peaks discussion that treats weirdness as spiritually serious.
Twin Peaks is treated less like a cult artifact and more like a place where sincerity, dread, and a hard-to-name kind of holiness keep brushing up against one another.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Josh Larsen hosts Joe George and Rosalyn Hernandez to analyze the resurgence of devil movies in 2024, focusing on Apartment 7A as a prequel to Rosemary's Baby.
Josh Larson opens with a Nike television commercial and asks what winning means for Christians.
Josh Larsen hosts Abby Olchesi and Joe George to discuss Apple TV's Severance, exploring its themes of work, identity, and faith.
Josh Larson hosts Sarah Welch Larson and J.R.
Josh Larsen hosts Joe George and Abby Olcheski to analyze The Acolyte, exploring its theological themes like confession, forgiveness, and religious obedience.
Josh Larson frames Twin Peaks as a mystery series about FBI agent Dale Cooper, played by Kyle MacLachlan, arriving in a quiet northwestern timber town after the murder of a high school prom queen.
Josh Larson gathers Claude Acho, Sarah Welch Larson, and Eric Danielson to revisit their favorite music of 2024.
Josh Larson opens with a listener request for favorite movies, music, and television from 2024, then turns to Stevie Wonder.
Think Christian opens its best-of-2024 TV run with listener mail and a panel of favorite shows.
Think Christian opens with Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho's latest film, and places it alongside Parasite as a much different kind of story.
Josh Larson opens the episode by asking whether Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes can keep the revived franchise moving in a meaningful direction.
Josh Larson opens with faith and pop culture.
Josh Larson closes out Think Christian's best-of-2024 series by turning to movies.
Josh Larson opens by centering the discussion on Furiosa.
Josh Larson opens by saying he's been waiting on a new Chance the Rapper mixtape and brings back TC contributor Claude Acho to talk through where Chance is right now.