Postmodern Realities Episode 251 Growing Up and Letting Go in CODA

09/02/21 • 49 min

The film CODA (2021) is a coming-of-age story about a hearing girl and her deaf family. While the arc of the story has the stereotypical beats of a teenage coming-of-age drama, it also explores the dynamics of growing up and letting go. Many Christians might resonate with the main protagonist Ruby’s parents that she must do “her part,” as a loving daughter to forsake pursuing her college dreams and remain home to be the interpreter for deaf parents and brother who need to run their fishing business. At the end of the day, somebody in her family is going to have to sacrifice something. That’s the drama of the film CODA, and that’s the drama of the Christian life as well.
This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Cole Burgett about about his online-exclusive, “Growing Up and Letting Go in CODA“. **Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for CODA.**https://www.equip.org/article/growing-up-and-letting-go-in-coda/
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Episode 227 Catharsis and the Power of Release in WandaVison
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Episode 218: Wonder Woman 1984: The Truth Is Enough.
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Episode 214 Star Trek’s Christopher Pike: An Old Fashioned Hero For Our Cynical Times
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Postmodern Realities Episode 250 Recovering the Argument for God from Beauty

Any amateur who has taken up a brush knows how hard it is to create a beautiful painting without training. Yet the natural world seems to produce beauty without any struggle at all. This common-sense observation provides a natural movement from wonder at the creation to awe of the creator. Making aesthetically good artwork requires skill and intention, so who should we credit with the ‘artistry’ of the natural world? The rosy wash of the setting sun on a cloud-filled sky with mountains beneath looks to our eyes like the masterpiece of an expert painter. Yet we know that the natural world possesses no mind toward its own design. Should we not then look to a designer? This podcast episode is a milestone celebration of 250 episodes in the past five years with our very first guest from episode one. It is a conversation about recovering the argument for the existence of God from beauty.
This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Phil Tallon about his article in a forthcoming issue of the Christian Research Journal, “Recovering the Argument for God from Beauty”.
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Episode 243: The Fall of Sherlock: Investigating the Victorian Detective in a Modern Age
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The Mandalorian
Episode 217: Thinking About Religion in The Mandalorian
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Tenet
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A Hidden Life
Episode 155 The Marathon of Martyrdom: A Review of A Hidden Life
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Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker
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Fred Rogers and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood:
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Tolkien
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Alfred Hitchcock films:
Episode 100: A. Hitchcock Films
The Coen Brother’s Films:
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The Films of Quentin Tarantino:
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Postmodern Realities Episode 252 Meditation Upon the Death of a Pet

Almost all the exotic pets of my childhood in Africa were rescues, caught out of the bags of hunters and the clutches of small children who just wanted a more interesting dinner than maize porridge. I was the only one who mourned them. And, in the case of Ash, though all my family loved him, I am the one who still can’t look at his grave in our back garden. And I am not alone. Join any peculiar dog breed group on Facebook and you will find countless prayer requests—long shot, hopeless pleas for God, to whom the poster has probably never prayed before, to spare a dog. Members of these groups pray, to whomever they imagine, because they understand the peculiar agony of the loss of a helpless and innocent creature who they were sure couldn’t die—and yet did.
This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Anne Kennedy about about his online-exclusive, “Meditation Upon the Death of a Pet”. https://www.equip.org/article/meditation-upon-the-death-of-a-pet/
Please note this article will be fully accessible by the public in the future, to get early access to read it now, please see our FAQ section on Early Access to Online-Exclusive Articles by clicking here. https://www.equip.org/early-access-to-online-exclusive-articles-faqs/
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Other articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring this author:
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