The Beached White Male Podcast welcomes Scott Young, Creator and President of Culture Connection and the former Director of the City of Angels Film Festival. Ken likes to call Scott the Professor of Cinema. Scott asserts that we are at the end of the "print culture" and we've become a "culture of moving images." Movie images are today's "lingua franca." Some see movies for entertainment or escape, others to process the challenges of their lives - or to enrich. Ken shares four films that have shaped and enriched his life - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Beautiful Mind, Dead Poet Society, and Belfast. Scott shares his list: Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, and Nightmare Alley. As we finished Black History Month, Scott features world-class directors who are also people of color, including Ava DuVernay and When They See Us - the story of the Central Park Five (also known for the award-winning Selma). Charles Burnett produced the film Killer of Sheep (1978) as an MFA film student at UCLA - the story of life in South Central Los Angeles. Gregory Nava's film Selena with a young Jennifer Lopez with Edward James Olmos, the story of a rising Latin singer who reached the pinnacle of stardom and then tragically murdered at age twenty-three. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu directed “Babel" (2006), a collection of stories with Kate Blanchett and Brad Pitt. Rooted in the biblical story of Babel, the stories and the images come together making a powerful punch. Scott ends by sharing some practical advice on how to watch a movie.
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Ken at the Long Beach home of the office of
Culture Connection
with Scott Young.
Recorded: May 6, 2021; Posted: May 8, 2021
For Episode #100, Ken welcomes back Co-Founder and President of Culture Connection, Inc., Scott Young. To celebrate, the two focus on finding the sacred in the most unlikely places. They follow Scott's career, from a period of spiritual and intellectual awakenings in his hometown of Escondido, CA. From there, Scott completes college and seminary to become a chaplain on several major university campuses. We talk about influencers like Vernon Grounds (then President of Denver Seminary), Harvey Cox, theologians Barth and Brunner, African American Evangelist, Tom Skinner, social justice advocate, and evangelical Rene Padilla, Urbana conferences in the 1970s, Bill Pannell at Fuller Theological Seminary, The City of Angels Film Festival, Andy Warhol, Martin Sheen, film critic Sister Rose Pacatte and Ralph Winter of X-Men and Fantastic Four fame. Finally, they catch up on Scott's journey since our first interview - remembering his son Josh. SHOW NOTES
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The Future of Faith
The Market as God
Cox was ordained as an American Baptist minister in 1957, and started teaching as an assistant professor at the Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts. He then began teaching at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) in 1965 and in 1969 became a full professor. He was to become “the single most heeded professor in religion at Harvard.”[6]
Cox became widely known with the publication of The Secular City in 1965. It became immensely popular and influential for a book on theology, selling over one million copies. Cox developed the thesis that the church is primarily a people of faith and action, rather than an institution. He argued that “God is just as present in the secular as the religious realms of life”.
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