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Michael and Us

#516 - Embrace the Fire (w/ Alex Shephard)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

By the third entry of the God's Not Dead franchise, its creative team had clearly started listening to their critics. The result was a kinder, gentler right-wing Evangelical Christian drama that sought to heal divides... and failed at the box office. We welcome back New Republic writer and our resident God's Not Dead correspondent Alex Shephard to discuss GOD'S NOT DEAD: A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS (2018). JOIN US ON PATREON FOR AN EXTRA EPISODE EVERY WEEK - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0

God's not dead.

0:01.7

He's surely alive.

0:03.5

He's living on the inside.

0:05.8

Rolling like a lie.

0:07.8

I'll tell you how God's not deadpilled I am.

0:10.3

I actually went and downloaded the app that they advertise at the end of the movie.

0:15.6

I don't know if you guys can see that, but I've got it right here.

0:18.4

I am a little disappointed by it, frankly. Hell yeah.

0:23.4

I was just walking my dog and downloaded it and then I was like, this sucks. It's not a good

0:27.8

app, you know, even by the standards of this kind of thing. It's basically just plugging,

0:32.9

yeah, like the movies and the books, which apparently I guess, what are there novelizations of these?

0:38.4

I'm sure those are great. There's only one book I need, and it's the good book, so I don't know

0:43.5

what they're doing there. They're not, they should be novelizations, but they're all like

0:47.8

the evidence behind God's Not Dead, which you're like, you don't need that. That's great.

0:53.2

I love that there's a whole series of like secondary reading, you know?

0:57.1

It's like this is what evangelical fan culture is.

1:00.6

It's just like regular fan culture.

1:02.3

But it's like, look, here's the tabulation of evidence that the Christian God is the one true

1:07.4

God and is scientifically provable to be real.

1:10.3

Can I show you guys my favorite app on my phone?

1:12.5

It's the Richard Roper app. It hasn't been updated in a few years, but when it loads, there's a

1:17.5

picture of the Chicago skyline. It may not actually load anymore. There may not be any reviews on there.

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