Sacred Cinema: Contact

Faith Adjacent

The Popcast Media Group

Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Join Knox, Jamie, and Erin in this Sacred Cinema as they discuss Contact, starring Jodie Foster and Mathew McConaughey. Listen along as they deep-dive this 90s Sci-Fi film and explore questions like “Is there a Christ figure” and “Does this film have a problematic faith character?” What do Matthew McConaughey, Brene Brown, and Rob Bell have in common? What would Christian Twitter think about Palmer Joss? Can science and faith work together? You’ll have to make contact with this episode to find out!

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Contact: Rent on Amazon | IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes
Contact Deep-Dive: An Oral History of Contact the Movie
Read the Source Material: Contact by Carl Sagan
Matty McC Deep-Dive: Read Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Wildly Underrated: Watch A Time to Kill
A Similar Vibe: Read The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this very special episode of The Bible Binge.
0:10.8	I'm on your host, nice to call you.
0:11.8	Jeremy's always two people, both capable of beautiful dreams and horrible nightmares.
0:16.4	It's Aaron Moon and Jamie Golden.
0:17.6	I think that's true, right?
0:18.7	I just experienced maybe a combination of all of those two.
0:21.7	Before you guys started recording.
0:23.2	No, for the audio.
0:24.0	Before we started recording, Aaron very casually said,
0:28.3	Hey, I think there's a ladybug on your on your clavicle.
0:33.3	And I for those who don't know if you're new here, I have a huge ladybug phobia.
0:38.4	And I lost it.
0:39.8	She started undressing in a room where we have a glass door to an outside co-working space.
0:46.2	And where knocks would be arriving any minute.
0:48.8	That's right.
0:49.0	So maybe for the first time in our business partnership, see my Ariel.
0:53.5	So
0:55.1	Yeah, I mean, Jamie and I just went out a couple levels in our friendship for sure.
0:58.2	We did.
0:58.7	That's right.
0:59.3	That's right.
0:59.7	It was.
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