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The Sci-Fi Christian
We see The Sci-Fi Christian, in all its iterations, as being about the collision between faith and nerdom. We believe that good genre fiction is about more than just entertainment. We seek to engage with the themes and philosophies behind our favorite stories, wrestling with the big ideas within speculative fiction. We’re unabashedly nerdy and unabashedly Christian. Even if your faith background differs from ours, we look forward to interacting with you at The Sci-Fi Christian!
Episodes
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Episode 1123: Kooky Christmas: Joy To The Flat World
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s a Kooky Christmas interview with a Flat Earth true believer!
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Episode 1122: Kooky Christmas: Follow The Star
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono This time for Kooky Christmas, we look at magic and astrology being used in the biblical Christmas story.
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Episode 1121: Kooky Christmas: Up On The Rooftop
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Kooky Christmas is back, and Ben unlocks the truth behind UFOs!
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Episode 1120: Christmas Movies, Christmas Kosers
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, we are joined by Brian and Melissa Koser to discuss 20 Christmas films.
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Episode 1119: Mixing It Up With Midnight Mass
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Halloween extends into the Christmas season with this review of the series, “Midnight Mass.”
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Episode 1118: Decorating For Kooky Christmas
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s a Kooky Christmas prologue!
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Episode 1117: The Criterion Challenge: The Red Shoes
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono This time for The Criterion Challenge, we discuss “The Red Shoes, “La Dolce Vita,” and “The…
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Episode 1116: The Halloween Spooktacular 2023
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It our first-ever Spooktacular! A Halloween Hodgepodge!
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Episode 1115: Thinking About The Swiftie Empire
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode we discuss Taylor Swift, the Roman Empire, and fandom.
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Episode 1114: Listener Feedback With Brian Koser
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Brian Koser traveled to Minnesota to spend time with Ben and Matt, so they dedicated this hodgepodge conversation to…
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Episode 1113: Church Rant
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben has some thoughts on something he sees each year around this time of year.
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Episode 1112: Mulling Over Mulholland Drive
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono As part of the Criterion Challenge, we discuss “Mulholland Drive” and other films that influenced it.
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Episode 1111: Iliad Introduction
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In preparation for our deep dive series on the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid, we present this introduction.
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Episode 1110: Ethical Snobbery
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Acknowledging that all art is not subjective is just the first step.
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Episode 1109: Seein’ The Bomb With Iain
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Using the recent film “Oppenheimer” as a jumping off point, Ben dives back into our “Seein’…
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Episode 1108: I Love You, Moore: Introduction
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono We are preparing to do a Deep Dive series on Ben’s favorite James Bond, Roger Moore.
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Episode 1107: Criterion Completion
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben recently caught up on his viewing through the complete Criterion Collection. After watching through spines…
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Episode 1106: The Sci-Fi Christian Canon
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben and Matt will decide which Movies, TV Shows, Books, and Video Games deserve to be a part of The Sci-Fi Christian…
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Episode 1105: Aliens, Oppenheimer, And Other News
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben gives a non-spoiler review of “Oppenheimer,” plus we discuss the potential existence of…
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Episode 1104: AI Strike Talk
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono How will artificial intelligence impact human employment?
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Episode 1103: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Movie Review
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, we discuss “Dead Reckoning Part One,” and speculate on where the story may go in…
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Episode 1102: AI? Ay Yi Yi!
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben gives us warnings on the past, present, and future of AI.
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Episode 1101: Rockin’ It With Creed III
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben and Matt continue their journey through the Rocky franchise, this time with the most recent installment…
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Episode 1100: The Sci-Fi Christian Undectennial Self-Celebration Extravaganza
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono For our 1100th episode, we reflect on the state of The Sci-Fi Christian, and Ben presents eleven different topics to…
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Episode 1099: The SFC Time Loop: 2013’s Top 5 Sci-Fi Geniuses Gone Bad
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Back in 2013, Ben and Matt made a list of creators that went from good to bad, and give some potential warnings for the…
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Episode 1098: Bad Sci-Fi Geniuses: The Next Generation
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ten years later, we use this episode to follow up on Episode 108. A special thank you to SFC.blue!
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Episode 1097: George, Job, and Ivan
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben discusses the Book of Job by way of “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “The Brothers…
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Episode 1096: The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom: Sort Of Review
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono “Tears of the Kingdom” has now been released, and Ben shares his initial thoughts here!
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Episode 1095: Here Come The Jesuses And Other News
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s the return of a news episode! And other announcements!
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Episode 1094: Bond, James Bond: The Pearson Era
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s the seventh episode of our series on the entire James Bond franchise!
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Episode 1093: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Preview
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Later this week, “Tears of the Kingdom” is being released, and Ben has his predictions here!
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Episode 1092: Mrs. Davis: The First Two Episodes
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this spoiler-filled episode, we discuss the new Peacock series, “Mrs. Davis.”
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Episode 1091: It’s A Mario Bros. Movie Review
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben and Matt happened to see “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” in the theater on the same day. Here’s the…
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Episode 1090: From Goodness To Holiness: Part 3: The Good Bad News
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s the conclusion to Ben’s recent Thought Trilogy!
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Episode 1089: From Goodness To Holiness: Part 2: Blessed Are The Extremists
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s Part 2 of Ben’s latest Thought Trilogy!
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Episode 1088: Chapterhouse: Dune: Introduction
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s the intro episode to our upcoming deep dive analysis of “Chapterhouse: Dune.”
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Episode 1087: Books 2022
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, we discuss our favorite, first-time reads from 2022.
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Episode 1086: From Goodness To Holiness: Part 1: H.P., A.C., And J.R.R.T.
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s Part 1 of Ben’s latest Thought Trilogy!
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Episode 1085: Kooky Cupid: I’ll Be Watching You
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono The Kooky Season continues! To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we discuss telepathy!
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Episode 1084: Movies 2022
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, we discuss our favorite first-time film viewings from 2022, and also list some of our least favorites…
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Episode 1083: Ready, Set, Jihad
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, Ben explores the current state of artificial intelligence, and predicts what comes next.
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Episode 1082: Deep Dive On Heart Of Darkness: Part 1: Up The River
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s Part 1 of our in-depth discussion on “Heart of Darkness!” For next week, read through Section 2.
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Episode 1081: Cleaning Up Kooky Christmas
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this follow up to Episode 1080, Ben further explains his thoughts on how we should view history.
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Episode 1080: Kooky Christmas: Christmas In Atlantis
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Kooky Christmas concludes with a conversation about lost civilizations.
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Episode 1079: The Sight and Sound List: Part 2
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s Part #2 of our discussion on the 2022 Sight and Sound Great Films of All Time list!
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Episode 1078: Kooky Christmas: Away In A Moon-ger
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, Ben explores the question of who built the moon.
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Episode 1077: Kooky Christmas: A Mockingbird In A Pear Tree
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, Ben opens by discussing a well-known conspiracy theory, but then moves into a Ben De Bono-original…
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Episode 1076: The Sight and Sound List: Part 1
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s Part #1 of our discussion on the 2022 Sight and Sound Great Films of All Time list!
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Episode 1075: Kooky Christmas: O Little Stargate of Bethlehem
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono The Kooky Christmas kick-off commences for the 2022 Season!
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Episode 1074: The Joy of Work
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben explains why your work matters, and how it makes you a better person.
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Episode 1073: Fight The Long Defeat
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s the epilogue to Ben’s recent Thought Trilogy!
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Episode 1072: Top 10 Things We’ve Rewatched Since Episode 975
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Almost 100 episodes later, we are back with our reactions to the 10 things that we said we’d rewatch by Episode 1075.
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Episode 1071: Seein’ With Iain: The Butlerian Manifesto
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s the conclusion to Ben’s recent Thought Trilogy!
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Episode 1070: An Offer You Can’t Refuse
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben has a proposal for Matt. Can he refuse it?
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Episode 1069: Double Doppelgänger Dilemma
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono You can be more human by confronting your Shadow Self.
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Episode 1068: Top 12 Book Poster Books (So Far)
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono We’ve been making our way through a list of 100 essential novels, and in this episode, we rank the 12 books that…
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Episode 1067: Game of Frames
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben gives us nine useful framing devices through which we can view reality.
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Episode 1066: Does Rings of Power Make You Cower?…and Other News
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben has been reviewing both “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” and “House of the…
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Episode 1065: Seein’ With Iain: Rise of the Machines
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono This episode is the first of a trilogy of episodes that Ben has put together.
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Episode 1064: What the Facts 2: More Facts
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s a facts hodgepodge! Are there any facts that you must be right about?