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Soong Chan Rah is author of several books, including Prophetic Lament. You can follow him on twitter here.Hillary McBride is the author of Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image. You can listen to her whole talk on emotions at Cascade Church (it’s great!). You can follow her on twitter and instagram.Joel Harrison is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Palms of Victory, Crowns of Glory: Evangelical Political Identity and Underground Christian Punk.” You can follow him on twitter here. Soong Chan Rah references Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes’ book I Bring the Voices of My People and The Burden of Black Religion by Chris Evans.———You can listen to To Think of You is to Treasure a Distant Memory by Zao here. Check out the live video Krispin mentions here. ———You can support the show by becoming a patreon. You can follow the show on twitter and instagram, and visit our website. You can follow Krispin at twitter and instagram and sign up for a monthly email about attachment, spirituality and evangelicalism here. You can follow DL on twitter and instagram, and buy her books here. Send us an email!Zech Bard designed artwork for the season and Forrest Johnson wrote and recorded theme music. 

Dr. Leah Payne is a professor of Christian studies at George Fox University, author of Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century and co-host for The Weird Religion Podcast. You can follow her on twitter here. She is currently working on a book on CCM and you can help her out by filling out her CCM survey, if you grew up listening to any kind of Christian music. You can follow Becky Castle Miller on twitter, instagram and buy her books here. Her full 50-minute interview is up over at Attached to the Invisible, where she talks more in depth about emotions, evangelicalism, and what following Jesus in our emotional life looks like. Here’s Bill Bright’s Four Spiritual Laws that Becky refers to in her interview. ------Songs in this episode:Adam, Soiled Rags and A Life Wasted Sleeping,by Nodes of Ranvier.Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste by Norma Jean with Aaron Weiss with audio from a live recording from Furnace Fest 2002.------You can support the show by becoming a patreon. You can follow the show on twitter and instagram, and visit our website. You can follow Krispin at twitter and instagram and sign up for a monthly email about attachment, spirituality and evangelicalism here. You can follow DL on twitter and instagram, and buy her books here. Send us an email!Zech Bard designed artwork for the season and Forrest Johnson wrote and recorded theme music. 

To start off the Shamecore Records season, Krispin interviewed director Chris White and composer/musician, Daniel Smith about their recent movie Electric Jesus. At the end of the episode, D.L. shares a bit about forming an evanegalistic punk rock band when she was 13 years old. The soundtrack for Electric Jesus just released, and is filled with both Christian hair metal and Danielson’s weird indie rock. We’ve been a longtime of fan of Daniel Smith’s music as Daielson, and one of our favorite albums is Fetch the Compass Kids.You can watch a whole documentary about Danielson here and it is wonderful.Here is the Believer article about Danielson that D.L. mentions. Next week, we’ll really dive into talking about Christian hardcore and the emotional experience of growing up evangelical. You can follow the podcast on twitter or instagram, where D.L. will post pictures of her punk rock days. Become a patreon and support the podcast for as little at $1.50 a month.Also, you can send us an email!You can follow Krispin on twitter or instagram, and DL. on twitter and instagram.D.L.’s most recent book The Myth of the American Dream is also available! 

After D.L. talked about Frank Peretti on the Good Christian Fun podcast, we decided to release this episode for the general public, a Patreon-only episode from a year ago when we talked about The Cooper Kids and The Door in the Dragon's Throat.Become a Patreon for $1.50, $4 or $8 per month and get monthly episodes like this one and dive into our back catalogue of episodes about WOW 1999, Brio Magazine and other evangelical artifacts

D.L. and Krispin discuss The Last Battle in the last episode of the series, and D.L. reads an essay we wrote together about the parallels between The Last Battle and American Christianity.Our 6th season, Shamecore Records is coming in March! Join us at our Patreon for some patreon-only episodes until then!

Krispin and Danielle interview artist, Tomatobird about the comic she wrote about Tash from The Last Battle titled "Inexorable" and available to read here.You can follow her on instagram, twitter and tumbler, support her on Patreon, and buy prints of her work in her online store.SHAMECORE RECORDS will be the 6th season of our podcast. Listen to the trailer here, and if you love (or loved) heavy Christian music, leave us a voicemail!Have any lingering questions about Narnia? We are wrapping up next week, so hit us up with questions on twitter or at propheticimaginationstation@gmail.com.A few highlights from our conversation:Was C.S. Lewis a univeralist? Sort of. Discussed the book Roar!: A Christian Family Guide To The Chronicles Of NarniaTaylor points out that having some good brown people doesn’t make The Last Battle not racist, it’s just tokenism. The idea that myths point to Jesus is invalidating… “your beliefs and stories are valuable because they are secretly about Jesus and you don’t know it yet.” This book bring up the question: Is death good? The Pevenses watch the world end and its a positive experience. Calormen gets all the criticism for sacrifice, while there’s a sacrificial slab (stone table) right in the middle of Narnia.Religion often pushes away death anxiety, so we don’t get a chance to make peace with it.   Much of the time, Lewis was having fun… he wasn’t THAT intentional.Lewis’ themes are beyond Christianity.  We can see the limits of Lewis’ imagination, and where his imagination pushed the limits of his context. Racism in The Last Battle is possibly worst than Horse & His Boy.Is Tash Satan? That’s certainly up for debate.Taylor believes that Narnia is a world of henotheism, where western gods are good characters, eastern gods are not. 

D.L. and Krispin take a break from Narnia to reflect on four years of our podcast analyzing evangelical media - and how conspiracy themes are woven throughout!We discuss how to navigate relationships when you those in your life dismiss the significance of this event.D.L. explains the relational follow-out that occurred in Germany, as D.L. discusses the book Frauen by Owings.If you were disappointed with your church's response yesterday (Sunday Jan 10) to this insurrection, it's unlikely to get any better from here on out. It’s super important to find a supportive spiritual community, if you’re able to!

Torri Williams Douglass is a writer, speaker, educator, and activist. She is the creator of White Homework which is a curriculum designed to help people create their own personalized antiracism plan. The courses were developed as a response to the hundreds of requests she got from individuals asking, “I don’t want to be racist, but what do I DO?” Prior to this, she worked in higher ed, doing recruitment for Underrepresented Minorities in STEM. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon. Also she’s a great twitter follow. “The Chronicles of Narnia was required reading for homeschoolers.”Anyone else remember Abeka homeschool curriculum?! D.L. wrote this piece on reading Little House on the Prairie with kids. "Aslan is a drama queen"… (remember how Mr. Whitaker, drama queen for the patriarchy in Season 4 of Prophetic Imagination Station?)Rereading our childhood favorites actually is a good place to start reading with a decolonize lens. We are already comfortable with them - but it takes a lot of extra time. Krispin grew up with Hannah Barbarra Bible videos like these. No art is perfect - but sometimes it’s not worth the energy and time it takes to wade through it.Krispin mentions Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Matt Mikalatos took more time to talk with us about Narnia and C.S. Lewis, with lots of interesting parts we haven't covered in our series - like an eco-critical reading of Narnia, guessing Lewis' enneagram number, Planet Narnia, and how Lewis wrote letters to children explaining the Narnia series in ways he never made public.Thank you Matt and patrons for a wonderful evening! You can sign up and be a part of events like these, and more, at www.patreon.com/dlmayfield

Paul Pastor is an editor and writer, and has published a collection of non-ficiton essays about the Holy Spirit called The Face of the Deep and some books of prayers & meditations called The Listening Day Volume 1 and Volume 2. You can find him on Twitter. Or go to his website and write him a letter!Become a patreon of the podcast at www.patreon.com/dlmayfield and join us for a Narnia Q&A Wednesday night, Dec 16 (6pm pacific / 9pm eastern). The Highlights:Aslan’s How: a house put together by Dr. Garry Friesan for male students attending Multnomah University (Multnomah Bible College when we went there).Paul mentions the best box set being this one and we agree. Lewis’ favorite author/theologian was named George McDonald. He was a Victorian era preacher and fantasy writer known for his heretical views. Phantastes by MacDonald, Lewis said, “baptized his imagination”. The Silver Chair synopsis. The Silver Chair also includes one of the best characters in Lewis’ canon, PuddleglumMichael Ward wrote a book on the Narnia stories being linked to medieval conceptions of various planets. Check out his website, Planet Narnia. Why hasn’t The Silver Chair been made into a major motion picture?The Silver Chair corresponds to Luna, or the moon. The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross is an initiatory moment.Holy Darkness is different and holds richness because they dwell in obscurity or shadow, which is present in Godself. The Scriptures say that God dwells in deep darkness.