Episodes of Doxacon

Doxacast 10 - Minecraft and Star Trek and Atheism, oh my!

September 17, 2018Join 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!

Doxacast 9 - Eve Tushnet’s Top 9 Underrated Vampire Films

September 2, 2018Your 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 pr

Doxacast 8 - Eve Tushnet’s Top 10 Underrated Horror Films

August 19, 2018Eve Tushnet, a Doxacon 2017 speaker, is back with host Daniel Silver to discuss her Top Nine Underrated Vampire Films.

Doxacast 7 - Leah and Alexi

August 5, 2018Eve Tushnet, a Doxacon 2017 speaker, joins host Daniel Silver to discuss her Top Ten Underrated Horror Films and answer audience questions.

Doxacast 6 - Harry Potter and the Harrowing of Hades

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.c

Doxacast 5 - The Last Jedi

July 9, 2018Your 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?

Doxacast 4 - May the Phos (τὸ φῶς) Be with You

June 25, 2018Your 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.

Doxacast 3 - Black Panther

June 13, 2018Our 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, an

Doxacast 2 - S.H.I.E.L.D. of Faith

May 27, 2018In 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, 2018Daniel 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.

Doxacast 1 - Pilot

April 24, 2018In 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 Chri

SESSION THREE 2021

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"Doxaco

SESSION TWO 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 2021

Fr. David Subu - One More Blasphemy Remains

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

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

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

SESSION ONE

Bring Out Your Undead: Lessons in Faith from Zombie Apocalypse Films

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

Exodus and Escape in the Fantastic: Pandemonium, Pandemic and Promised Land

LAY KEYNOTE: Ellen Elliot - “Bring Out Your Undead: Lessons in Faith from Zombie Apocalypse Films"Doxacon prime 2020