I was raised a conservative Evangelical homeschooled Christian. My parents and church elders believed the best way to keep my little mind pure was to shelter me from all pop culture, and replace it with Christian alternatives. I grew up to be an atheist, and later a neopagan witch. Throughout my post-Christian journey, I have enjoyed returning to the Christian pop culture of my childhood, to sort out the good from the bad, and occasionally to have a good laugh.
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Adventures in Odyssey
I started reviewing this series once before. There were two problems. First, I was reviewing it as an atheist, like VeggieTales and The Screwtape Letters, but I was starting to feel that I wasn’t quite an atheist anymore. Second, looking at it from a religious framework made it hard to point out the things that bothered me most.
I took a break, and when I came back I realized that I really wanted to write about these from the perspective of an educator and childcare worker. I’ve worked as a teacher’s assistant in a variety of settings for the past eight years, and I’ve also lived under the kind of discipline philosophy that Focus on the Family advocates. I have a lot to say here. I won’t be reviewing every episode; just the ones that illustrate something worth considering when it comes to how we raise and educate kids, with a special view towards how we handle moral and behavioral issues. It’s a challenging topic that I think needs far more attention right now, and I hope you enjoy my take on it.
The Screwtape Letters
Reviews as a Witchy Spiritual-type Person
- Introduction
- Chapter One: How Not to Keep Your Human on the Road to Hell
- Chapter Two: On Finding Your Enlightened Movement is Still Full of Humans
- Chapter Three: How Not to be Nice to Your Mother
- Chapter Four: Prayer is Hard to do Wrong
Reviews as an Atheist (an older series)
- 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?
- God Wants Me to Forgive Them?
- Are You My Neighbor?
- 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)
