Good Story 058: Of Gods and Men

Julie and Scott talk about Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois. What a film it is!

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• Of Gods and Men on IMDB
• The Monks of Tibhirine

Good Story 057: The Night Watch

Good and evil, collective good vs. individual good - these are some of the themes in Sergei Lukyanenko's The Night Watch. And vortexes. And some body switching. And vampires, werewolves, magic... urban fantasy, straight from Russia! Scott and Julie discuss the book.

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More stuff:

• Sergei Lukyanenko's discontinued blog
• Sergei Lukyanenko's website

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies. -- Sergei Lukyanenko, The Night Watch

Good Story 056: Be Kind, Rewind

In Episode 56, Julie and Scott talk Be Kind, Rewind - a movie directed by Michel Gondry that stars Jack Black and Mos Def. Don't worry - they rewound it for you. Let them know if the tape is blank, and they'll see what they can do.

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• Michel Gondry on IMDB
• The SFFaudio Podcast #44: The First One with Professor Rabkin

Good Story 055: Parable of the Sower

Julie and Scott wander around in another failed civilization, this time with Lauren Olamina, who luckily has come up with her very own religion. We also talk a bit about the Pope and Tostitos. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.

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More stuff:

• Tostitos
• Scott talked about this excellent DVD: Understanding Sunday Mass: A Kid's Point of View
• Some stuff about Octavia E. Butler
• Wikipedia says that SolSeed is a social movement inspired by Earthseed, the fictional religion presented by the main character in this book.
• Hey, look! A Pope!

O God, who in your providential design willed that your Church be built upon blessed Peter, whom you set over the other Apostles, look with favor, we pray, on Francis our Pope and grant that he, whom you have made Peter's successor, may be for your people a visible source and foundation of unity in faith and of communion. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Good Story 054: The Godfather

Julie and Scott watch The Godfather. There's no way that they would ever write an intro to this podcast in which they mention "an offer you can't refuse". Nope. Won't do that. (WARNING: This podcast contains almost no Marlon Brando impersonations, and only one Tamahome mention.)

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• The Godfather on IMDB

Good Story 053: Jurassic Park

Julie and Scott talk about Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton without once saying "hold onto your butts". They note that the Hammond in the book is not a very nice guy. After discussing the book, they bounce off the path and talk about education and our beloved Pope. Then the raptors chase them off.

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More stuff:

• Sandra Tayler at onecobble.com: Structuring Life to Make Room for Creativity
• TED Talk: Aaron O'Connell: Making Sense of a Visible Quantum Object.
• TED Talk: Ken Robinson: Schools Kill Creativity

Good Story Podcast is Finalist in 2013 About.Com Awards

Now this is fun! And exciting!

A Good Story is Hard to Find podcast is a finalist in the 2013 About.com Catholicism Awards.

And I like their description:

Rather than create a podcast about Catholic books and movies, Julie Davis and Scott D. Danielson discuss classic books and movies "as Catholics."

They get us! They really get us! (Ok, no more channeling Sally Fields...)

I saw we are in there with Fr. Barron, Pray-As-You-Go (a regular listen of min) and other big podcasts I admire. What honorable company Scott and I have risen to!

We haven't a chance, but we're the only one of our sort. Mostly. iPadre being a different sort of conversation. (That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!)

Perhaps we'll get some folks dropping by to try us out though, which would be the best! We can always do with new book-and-movie lovin' pals.

Check it out, and be sure to look at the other categories too. The blogs, books, and suchlike that I recognize are top-notch. Which means I'm definitely going to be checking out the ones I don't know.

And vote ... of course ... definitely vote.

I don't want to have to bring the Hypno-Toad out for this one. But you know. I'll do what I have to.

Good Story 052: Mostly Martha

Julie and Scott made this podcast using a recipe that has been in their families for centuries. They made it especially for all of you. To not listen is... impossible. Mostly Martha is the subject, a German film from 2001 written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck. Scott is pretty sure that the last movie he saw in German was Das Boot. This one is not much like that one.

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• Mostly Martha on IMDB

Good Story 051: Introduction to the Devout Life

Julie and Scott post a podcast discussion of Introduction to the Devout Life on the feast day of St. Francis de Sales. We swear we didn't plan it that way... what are the odds? Episode 51.

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More stuff:

• Introduction to the Devout Life on Goodreads
• Find the whole book here...

Good Story 050: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Julie and Scott travel the universe, telling civilizations to stop shooting at them. Scott's robot suit is starting to chafe. The Day the Earth Stood Still - the awesome 1951 version, not the why-did-they-make-this 2008 version.

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Our first duty, therefore, precisely in order to heal this world, is to be holy, configured to God; in this way we emanate a healing and transforming power that also acts on others, on history. ... In this regard, it is useful to reflect that the Twelve Apostles were not perfect men, chosen for their moral and religious irreproachability. They were indeed believers, full of enthusiasm and zeal but at the same time marked by their human limitations, which were sometimes even serious. Therefore Jesus did not call them because they were already holy, complete, perfect, but so that they might become so, so that they might thereby also transform history, as it is for us, as it is for all Christians.
-- Pope Benedict XVI, Homily at Port of Brindisi, Italy (June 15, 2008)

• Patricia Neal's Catholic story
• And her obit, which highlights her stand against abortion.