Introducing "Sacred Frames" A Podcast About Faith & Film
For a couple years now, my friend and neighbor, Mike Yager, and I have been kicking around the idea of producing a movie podcast. While Mike and I were on pastoral staff together at Ecclesia Houston, mike birthed the name Sacred Frames for a sermon series for the church. Each week we would walk through a film and highlight what questions it asked about being human and where it did or did not interact with God and faith.
At the same time, my friend, and fellow Enneagram theorist, Jeff Cook (who co-host Around the Circle) was also talking about new ideas and project. Add to that me, Mike, and Jeff have been members of the same group chat dedicated to talking (and arguing) about movies.
Since Mike (an Enneagram 4) and me (an Enneagram 3 with a big 4 wing) couldn’t get our idea off the ground, Jeff stepped in (Enneagram 1) and gave us the skills and organization we needed. And this week we recorded and filmed what we hope is the first episode of Sacred Frames. And the movie we talked about in James Gunn’s newest, Superman.
If you’ve been reading this Substack, I have written two previous essays about Superman, wherein I argued with myself about how much I like or dislike it, and I still have no firm answer.
Our hope is that Sacred Frames not simply be some dudes talking about movies, but a helpful tool to help you read, re-read, and execute the culture around you; to help you see what is being said, and not be the kinds of thoughtless reactionary who thinks things like Gunn’s Superman is “woke”1 when Superman does and says the same thins he has done and said since the 1940’s. We would love for you to even more deeply embrace the power of story-telling and your life as a story-teller and seer.
So, at long last, here is Sacred Frames.
Woke is a world that means whatever the sayer wants it to mean that day, even if they use it to insult something they supported yesterday.