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737: #737 - Guns and Christian Culture: A Conversation with Rex Harsin

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Christianity, Culture, Politics, Theology, Discipleship, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On episode #737 of Theology in the Raw Preston has a conversation with Rex Harsin. Rex Harsin is a native Mississippian (born in Tupelo, now living in Oxford). He attended film school in Los Angeles. The genesis of this documentary lies in 2017, when as a Christian and as a filmmaker, Harsin became interested in the topic of gun violence in America.

You can check out the documentary here: https://www.beatingguns.com/documentary

You can follow Rex Harsin on Twitter: @rexharsinfilms

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0:00.0

Hello friends welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Ra. I am so grateful you have joined us on the show. We have a special guest named Rex Harson on the show today.

0:10.4

Rex Harson is the producer of a documentary called Beating Guns, Beating Guns,

0:16.2

which looks at various Christian leaders and how they think through things like gun violence, gun ownership, or even just the gun culture in American Christianity.

0:30.0

The documentary, Beating Guns, in some way kind of corresponds to the book written by

0:35.6

Shane Claiborne, also called Beating Guns.

0:38.9

And you'll see Shane quite a bit in the documentary.

0:41.6

I mean, there are two different ventures, really the book in the documentary. I mean they're two different ventures really the book in the

0:44.5

documentary but they decided to name it the same thing to kind of show some kind of

0:48.8

of relationship. Anyway Rex is a super cool dude. We talked about gun violence for a while.

0:53.5

We talked about Christian nonviolence,

0:54.9

talked about his journey,

0:56.0

but then got into kind of a Christian view of film.

0:58.5

And we started talking about different films

0:59.9

and how Christians should evaluate the goodness or morality or persuasiveness or virtue of films

1:08.0

based on more than just whether they contain swearing or drug dealing scenes or witchcraft or whatever but

1:15.4

look for more Christian themes that are woven throughout various films so

1:19.6

we didn't plan that out we just kind of got into it start talking about a Christian

1:23.2

view of film so I hope you enjoy this episode I very much enjoyed interviewing and

1:26.9

chatting with Rex Harrison so welcome to the show for the first time ever

1:30.9

Mr Rex Harsen. Okay, we are live. I am here with Rex Carson. He is the producer of the documentary Beating Guns.

1:58.0

Rex, thanks so much for being on the show.

2:00.0

Yeah, thanks for having me.

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