Poldark

The WVM team searches for worldview nuggets like an obsessed man digs for ore in a failed copper mine. This time it is in the Masterpiece Theater presentation of “Poldark” on PBS. Surely, one part of being an honorable man is to have the strength of your convictions and to hold fast to your sense of morality in spite of the consequences. But what if your convictions and your morality have two feet planted firmly in thin air, because you’ve adopted a secularist worldview?

Gordan interviews Christian musician and author, John Steinreich, on the topic of music. Must we be in CCM, or a worship band, if we want to serve God through our music? We consider art as a fulfillment of the command to love our neighbors for the sake of Christ. We urge Christian musicians to extend the dominion of Christ even into the area of the performance of music in the public arenas.

The WVM team analyzes an ambitious, independent sci-fi flick that asks a lot of really important questions, but then lacks the presuppositional foundations to answer any of them. What does it mean to be a person? Is “self awareness” merely a more advanced sort of programming than we’ve yet been able to accomplish? Or might there be something more to “intelligence” than merely bits of material interacting in accordance with their parameters?

“We enter the dark and slimy world of Stephen King’s chosen genre by discussing his book on the topic, Danse Macabre. Why is Horror fiction even a thing to begin with? What makes it work? What keeps audiences coming back for more, and for gore?

Our “hot take” on the topic is this: Horror fiction is a genre that can and should be used to the glory of Jesus Christ and the advancement of His Kingdom. We know that’s the opposite of what Evangelicals have always said. That’s why we get paid the big bucks.”

Like scavengers in a post-apocalyptic world looking for cans of something edible, the WVM podcast team stumbles across surprising worldview nuggets as we analyze some startlingly good storytelling from the AMC channel. It’s amazing how a world full of undead flesh-eaters can so easily set up moral dilemmas and questions of sovereignty. When civilization crumbles into dust and ruin, does the notion and right and wrong crumble with it? What happens when shear survival becomes the only over-riding ethical injunction?

Our intrepid hosts discuss two books. One is a popular novel, and one is about how to write popular novels for fun and profit.