Doxaprime 2024: Eleanor Bourg Nicholson and Matthew G. Alderman
Doxacon Prime 2024: Fr. Evan Cummings and Sara Esker
Doxacon Prime 2024: Erin Lazzari and Rae Grabowski
Doxacon Prime 2024: Ken Hite
Doxacon Prime 2024: Lia Lewis and Mary Jessica Woods
Doxacon Prime 2024: Rae Grabowski, Eddie Lazzari, and Jeanatan (J.C.) Hall.
Doxacon Prime 2024: Allison Franklin Jordan and Lucia Tosatto
Doxacon Prime 2024: Amy Browning-Dill
Doxacon Prime 2024: Fr. David Subu
October 7, 2018 Join your hosts Addie Mena and Daniel Silver as they do an impromptu episode on their favorite TV series, Agents of SHIELD. They discuss moral quandaries, character growth, and the theological implications of sci-fi technology.
September 17, 2018 Join your hosts Addie Mena and Daniel Silver as they discuss Philip Pullman’s series His Dark Materials. Continuing their discussion from last episode about atheist sci-fi and fantasy writers. There are spoilers ahead!
September 2, 2018 Your hosts Addie Mena and Daniel Silver discuss how we as Christians can interact with some of our favorite sci-fi series when they were created by atheists. How do we find the good in them and how do all stories show God’s presence in our lives?
August 19, 2018 Eve Tushnet, a Doxacon 2017 speaker, is back with host Daniel Silver to discuss her Top Nine Underrated Vampire Films.
August 5, 2018 Eve Tushnet, a Doxacon 2017 speaker, joins host Daniel Silver to discuss her Top Ten Underrated Horror Films and answer audience questions.
Daniel Silver talks with Leah Libresco & Alexi Sargeant about their Doxacon 2018 talks as well as some articles they’ve written and their thoughts on some books they’ve read. You can find Alexi’s article here https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/06/01/terraforming-ourselves/
July 9, 2018 Your hosts Daniel Silver and Addie Mena discuss Harry Potter, is it evil? Should we read it? Is Harry a Christ figure? What is the role of redemption in this series?
June 25, 2018 Your hosts Daniel Silver & Addie Mena discuss the high and low points of this Star Wars film and explore the role of tradition and teachers in Star Wars and religion.
June 13, 2018 Our hosts Daniel Silver and Addie Mena discuss the original Star Wars trilogy — about similarities between the Jedi and real world monastic orders, how the Force (or “the Phos”) can shape our view of the universe as Christians, and about the clash between religion and technology in the Star Wars universe.
May 27, 2018 In this episode, Daniel Silver is joined by Gloria Purvis of Morning Glory, EWTN’s flagship radio show. They discuss the Marvel film Black Panther and the themes of family, gender, race, and redemption.
May 13, 2018 Daniel Silver and Addie Mena discuss their favorite show, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which wrestles with serious issues of morality and faith, and has both good and bad examples of how to write Christian characters.
April 24, 2018 In this first episode, hosts Daniel Silver and Addie Mena start out by asking whether or not engagement in narratives can be a worthy Christian pursuit, even if a story isn’t written by a Christian author or contains overtly Christian themes.
SESSION THREE: Anne M. Carpenter & Lyle Enright - “Action and Mimesis in ‘This Is How You Lose the Time War’” Rev. Mindi Welton-Mitchell & Rev. Paul Schneider - “Hopepunk Theology: Weaponizing Optimism in Resistance to a Grimdark World" Doxacon 2021
SESSION TWO: Erin Lazzari - “Glory in His Shame: Zuko on the Road to Honor” Cindy Collins Smith - “Response to ‘Glory in His Shame’” Doxacon 2021
SESSION ONE: Eve Tushnet - “Beyond Kicking Butt: Countercultural Representations of Strength and Victory” Mat. Sarah Begley - “Shadows and Mirrors in Time and Space” Doxacon 2021
CLERGY KEYNOTE: Fr. David Subu - "One More Blasphemy Remains: Memory, Prescience, Possession, and Abomination in Frank's Herbert's Dune Saga" Doxacon 2021
SESSION THREE: Jonathan Jacobson - “Facing Judgment and Choosing Life: The Eschatology of Star Trek: Picard” Edmund Lazzari - “The Artifice of Escape: Chesterton and Star Wars on Hope” Doxacon prime 2020
SESSION TWO: Cindy Collins Smith - “Barefaced and Brightfaced: Pestilence and Theophany in Till We Have Faces” Rachel Grabowski - “The Banality of Goodness: Problems with Portraying Heaven in Film and the Possibility of Reading Road Warriors as Saints” Doxacon prime 2020
SESSION ONE: Zachary Porcu - “The Discerning Consumer: Loving Media Without Losing Your Soul” Patrick R. Callahan (Dr.) - “Light in the City: Technology, Freedom, and Suffering in Mega Man” Doxacon prime 2020
LAY KEYNOTE: Ellen Elliot - “Bring Out Your Undead: Lessons in Faith from Zombie Apocalypse Films" Doxacon prime 2020
CLERGY KEYNOTE: Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick - "Exodus and Escape in the Fantastic: Pandemonium, Pandemic and Promised Land" Doxacon prime 2020
