Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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How Jesus is like, but better than Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso is the TV discovery of 2020 in our household. It’s streaming on Apple TV, and it’s worth a subscription for a month just to plough through the ten episodes. I’m delighted to see it getting the attention it deserves. It’s a beautiful example of a movement in the arts called ‘the new sincerity’…
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How the Gospel is like Pixar’s Onward, but better
Pixar’s Onward is now top of the Pixar charts for me. It’s a stunning movie, and it seems a terrible shame that its cinematic release was stunted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The movie follows two brothers on a path to re-enchantment; one is a hopeless cynic, the other, his a hopeful, wishful even, older brother…
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How C.S Lewis is like Roald Dahl, but better (and Aslan is like Willy Wonka, but better)
My kids have hit the age where lots of the books I loved — that formed and form my imagination — are starting to resonate with them. We’ve been devouring Roald Dahl classics as audiobooks, and we’ve worked through a couple of the Chronicles of Narnia. I love Roald Dahl, but I’ve noticed (as have…
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How Jesus is like Fortnite, but better
Fortnite is a global phenomenon. The free-to-play first person shooter from Epic Games has just celebrated its first birthday. It’s just cracked $1 billion in revenue from in game purchases (and the growth there seems exponential, it started raking in more than $300 million a month back in May). It has 125 million players globally.…
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How Jesus is like Caesar Augustus, but better
It’s the year 2017 AD in the western world this year. Did you know that the AD means anno Domini; which is latin for ‘the year of our Lord’… our calendar counts the years from an estimate of the year that Jesus was born (it’s probably a few years out). But things could be different. We…
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How the Gospel of Jesus is like the story of Moana, but better
Moana is the best Disney princess movie I’ve ever seen. And as a 33 year old bloke you might be wondering just how extensive my knowledge of Disney princess movies is, but as a brother of three sisters, and father of two daughters, and as someone who likes to embrace my ‘sensitive’ side sometimes while…
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How the Gospel is like Frozen, but better
I have a five year old daughter. Which means I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen Frozen, let alone the times we’ve sung along to the soundtrack. I also have an almost two year old daughter, so there’s no sign of this trend letting up any time soon (plus sequels…). Frozen is, for all…
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How Jesus is like Batman but better…
I love Batman. I’ve always had a soft spot for the Caped Crusader; whether it’s the Adam West Batman from the 1950s-1960s, the cartoons I grew up with, the Christian Bale ‘Dark Knight’, Lego Batman, the Batman of the Arkham series of games, or even, dare I say it, Affleck-Batman. I love the idea of…
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