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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to a bonus episode of the Think Biblical podcast. |
0:04.8 | Normally on Fridays, we have our weekly cultural update, but we're taking July off, |
0:09.0 | and I'm posting one of my favorite conversations from my YouTube channel, really ever. |
0:14.7 | And here's why. |
0:15.9 | It's with Rob Leifeld, who is one of the most influential comic creators and artists. He's actually the creator |
0:22.8 | of the character, Deadpool, all the way back in a comic in the 90s that, of course, was |
0:28.6 | turned into a movie. Now, some people right away think, wait a minute, Deadpool character, |
0:33.8 | the creator, Rob is a Christian. He's been going to a church that I've spoken at for years and decades. |
0:40.9 | Now, of course, some are you thinking, how do you reconcile a character like Deadpool with being a Christian? |
0:46.0 | Well, you're asking exactly the right question. |
0:48.3 | Rob and I sat down for about 90 minutes. |
0:52.2 | Now, keep in mind, he's a comic artist. |
0:53.7 | He's not a professional debater or a theologian. I was just asking him questions about his love and his craft. And I had a conversation with students years ago where I just asked a question, can a Christian watch Deadpool? So I asked that to Rob to get his take and he went back and forth for a while. |
1:11.7 | Here's my hope with this. |
1:13.0 | You might agree with some of the takes. |
1:14.4 | You might disagree. |
1:15.6 | But this is a wonderful opportunity to have a conversation with a non-Christian, with a Christian, and just say, what do you think? |
1:22.2 | What's your take? |
1:22.9 | Where do you land? |
1:24.1 | I think you're going to enjoy this unique bonus episode of the Think Piblically podcast where I talk |
1:30.0 | with Rob Liefeld. Enjoy. Rob, I've been looking forward to this for a long time. I pulled my boys out |
1:37.1 | of school. They wanted to meet you. I have here. I have kept from 1991 the first appearance of Deadpool. I bought it off the stands. |
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