For the record, I’m currently a witch. For lack of a better word.
Before I was a witch, I was an atheist, and before that I was a conservative Evangelical Christian. I was raised that way, right down to being homeschooled to keep me out of the secular world’s influence. Part of that was not being separated from most entertainment that was popular with kids my age. No popular music – it was full of sex and violence, which just glamorized sin. No TV – thanks to the liberal agenda, it was jam packed with evolution and other anti-religious messages, which could lead to atheism. Definitely no Harry Potter. It could lead to witchcraft.
Well, they weren’t entirely wrong in their predictions.
Anyway, since my parents weren’t alone in this particular lifestyle, there was a massive market for Christian-themed pop culture. That was what made up the bulk of my childhood. As an adult I got into most of the things I had missed, and I enjoyed them, but it was too late for things like Harry Potter and the Animaniacs to have nostalgic appeal. My childhood memories would always be associated with a world I no longer belonged to.
After I had been an atheist for a little while, I decided to review one of my favorite books; The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis. It let me discover if it still had anything to offer in my new life, while giving me a space to process any more complicated thoughts or feelings that were brought up. This worked so well that I went on to use the same process with two other big parts of my childhood; the TV show VeggieTales and the radio drama Adventures in Odyssey.
Midway through the Adventures in Odyssey reviews, I started re-evaluating my beliefs. You can read that story here. In the meantime, these reviews were still an essential part of my life, and if you read them, I hope you get something good out of them.
Thank you for reading!
Adventures in Odyssey
- Connie Comes to Town
- Recollections
- Promises, Promises
- Nothing To Fear
- A Tangled Web
- A Matter of Obedience
- By Faith, Noah
- Emotional Baggage
- The Greatest of These
- Bad Company
- The Boy Who Didn’t Go to Church
- The Day After Christmas
- Mental Health Theme
- Meta Morals #1: Let This Mind Be In You
- Stewardship Theme
- Meta Morals #2: An Act of Nobility
- Politics Theme
- Meta Morals #3: Blind Justice
- Self-Improvement Theme
The Screwtape Letters
- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
- Part Four
- Part Five
- Part Five and a Half
- Part Six
- Part Seven
- Part Eight
- Part Nine
- Part Ten
- Part Eleven
- Part Twelve
- Part Thirteen
- Part Thirteen and a Half
- Part Fourteen
- Part Fifteen
- Part Sixteen
- Part Seventeen
- Part Eighteen
- Part Nineteen
- Part Twenty
- Part Twenty-One
- Part Twenty-Two
- Part Twenty-Three
Veggie Tales
- Where’s God When I’m S-s-scared?
- Are You My Neighbor?
- God Wants Me to Forgive Them?
- Rack, Shack and Benny
- Dave and the Giant Pickle
- The Toy That Saved Christmas
- Larry Boy and the Fib From Outer Space
- Josh and the Big Wall Part 1
- Josh and the Big Wall Part 2
- Madame Blueberry
- Larry Boy and the Rumor Weed
- King George and the Ducky
- Esther… the Girl Who Became Queen
- Lyle the Kindly Viking
- Jonah Part 1
- Jonah Part 2
- Silly Songs with Larry (April Fool’s bonus review)
