PCR Podcast Ep 34: Beatles' Documentary "8 Days a Week" With Trey Mowder

This fall filmmaker Ron Howard released a new documentary Eight Days a Week on the touring years of The Beatles. Trey Mowder and I sat down and discussed what we thought of the film. Part commentary, part movie review, part love letter to the Fab Four, consider this the semi-definitive guide to the new film. 


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Past Podcast Episodes

Episode 15: Mike Foster Tolkien Scholar and Author

Episode 32: An Interview With Mitch McVicker

Episode 16: Dialogues With Brandon: How Big Is Your Soul?

Rich Mullins, My Patron Saint

Note: A shortened version of this essay was given as an address at Living Waters Lutheran Church in Peoria, Illinois on November 19, 2016. The audio, along with a speech and interview with the EMT who was present at Rich Mullins' death, will soon be available as a podcast.

Late in his life, Thomas Aquinas, the great medieval scholastic theologian, author of the towering three volume Summa Theologica (that is, the "sum" of all theology) had a divine encounter with the living God. If you ever happen to pick up one of the volumes of the Summa and read it you will find it an immensely dense work full of meticulously reasoned arguments on (among many things) the creation of the world, the character of God, the moral life required of the faithful, and the importance of the work of Christ. In reading the Summa you get the impression that its author must have contained worlds of knowledge within himself and that his intellect was beyond compare. Aquinas was a true and rare genius.

Film Review: The Reflektor Tapes—Arcade Fire's Inversion of U2's Rattle and Hum

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?
In the middle of Arcade Fire and Kahlil Joseph's new concert documentary The Reflektor Tapes I realized Arcade Fire was differentiating themselves greatly from U2, the biggest self-proclaimed Biggest Band in the World, even if the latter band grows increasingly irrelevant as the years go on.