A Christian filmmaker friend of mine told me how excited he was for the state of Christian film. He has high hopes that Heaven is For Real will make a lot of money at the box office. Even though he doesn’t agree with the aberrant theology of Heaven is For Real, he believes that lots...
Glenn Beck is a fool. (Before anyone wants to get all Matthew 5:22 on me, you might want to read it first – and no, Glenn Beck is not my Brother). Granted, not the first words with which I wanted start my meager, sporadic contributions to Gospel Spam, but the level of idiocy that bombarded...
Apocity: The Greatest Omission by George Alvarado Lately at Gospel Spam we’ve been getting some requests to review books by the authors. As a guy who loves books I have only one requirement: send me a free copy and I’ll determine whether or not we want to review it here. One such request came from...
And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into...
Back in the early days of Reality Television, the producers tried really hard to give the appearance that what you were watching was to some extent, real. Everyone was shocked that Storage Wars placed items within purchased storage units. Because, as you know, storage units always have rare jewels inside them. That happens all the...
In 2011 a film about the MLB Baseball draft was created by Aaron Sorkin. The film was nominated for six academy awards including best picture. It also got Jonah Hill his first Oscar nom. It wasn’t just a great film. It was a great baseball film. I imagine that shortly after all the buzz around...
Yesterday, Matt Chandler’s The Village Church, blew up the internet with a post titled Three Things we Can Learn from Jimmy Fallon. Evangelicalism was rightly outraged. I mean how dare Kyle Worley, the post author, insinuate that Christians can learn anything from pagans. I’m kidding of course. But many people were not. It is a...
This week I sent our local classical music station a donation, WCNY Classical FM. I’ve rediscovered classical music in recent days. I’ve always enjoyed it and have a few good CD’s but it’s an area I want to pursue. Giving this station a donation gives me some financial motivation, an investment. Thus far, it’s paying...
“All I wanted to do was to make something beautiful.” Reputedly, Japanese anime auteur Hayao Miyazaki was inspired to make The Wind Rises after hearing this quote from Jiro Horikoshi, the subject of Miyazaki’s first biopic. Horikoshi was the designer of the Mitsubishi A6M, a notorious aircraft used by the Empire of Japan in WW2,...
Reality television has long been written off as mindless, cheap, factory line, entertainment. Whether you’re talking about Bad Girls Club which pits drunken, scantily clad women in a house to watch them fight, or perhaps the multiple sexes together in Big Brother or The Real World. Not to mention what could only be classified as...
