Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
Best Selling Author N. D. Wilson and Editor Brian Kohl host the Stories Are Soul Food podcast! The podcast that helps feed the right kind of loyalties and shape affection for the first and the greatest Author, Jesus Christ. This podcast is made possible by support from the Great Homeschool Convention and the team at Canonball Books.
Great Homeschool Conventions are the Homeschooling Events of the Year, offering outstanding speakers, hundreds of workshops on today’s top parenting and homeschooling topics, and the largest homeschool curriculum exhibit halls in the USA. We believe passionately in the God-given right and responsibility of parents to train and educate their children.
Great Homeschool Conventions are the Homeschooling Events of the Year, offering outstanding speakers, hundreds of workshops on today’s top parenting and homeschooling topics, and the largest homeschool curriculum exhibit halls in the USA. We believe passionately in the God-given right and responsibility of parents to train and educate their children.
Episodes
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May 16, 2022 • 128h 31min
71: War Stories and the Problem of Evil
This week's episode is full of #SASF conflict: Brian suggests that there are two kinds of war movies. Nate disagrees. Brian suggests that war movies are a great analogy for dealing with the problem of evil. Nate refrains from overt disagreement. A conversation ensues on the "real" problem of evil and how to respond to it (plus you get to hear Nate's favorite war movies).
May 9, 2022 • 108h 52min
70: Sir Terry Pratchett, Urban Cowboy
The guys have a book recommendation for you all... or rather, 41 books to recommend (and Nate owns them all). Find out why they recommend an atheist for your children to read.
May 2, 2022 • 120h 37min
69: Coach Your Novel
This week's episode highlights the difference between coaching and teaching, and how to do both well...especially as this applies to a novel. What happens when your novel is coming in less than half the length you wanted it to be? How do you fix that and other first-draft problems? These and other problems are taught in NDW's video course, "The School of Fantastical Wordcraft," but you get the intro here...
#SASF #StoriesAreSoulFood #NDWilson #FantasticalWordcraft
Apr 18, 2022 • 103h 26min
68: Hand Him a Hatchet
Ready for the parenting advice you didn't know you needed? A #SASF mother of boys wrote in with a question about what to have her son read during a time when he had no friends. Nate and Brian launch off into a discussion of what books can do for you, along with what they can't, and what else to consider handing your son when he's struggling. What they ended up with is some great soul food for moms, particularly—although dads, there are some good points for you as well.
#StoriesAreSoulFood #NDWilson #BooksforBoys #Parenting
Apr 11, 2022 • 166h 49min
67: When Good Themes Make Bad Stories
Nate and Brian discuss whether it's possible to write a good story based on a truth you wanted to communicate. This is a key question for Christian writers / artists / movie-makers, and misunderstanding it is what makes so much Christian art bad. To be honest, misunderstanding this is also what makes so much far-left woke creative projects terrible as well. Basically, you can't write a story "top-down." Plus, the guys get into a discussion of hidden themes and Easter eggs in N.D. Wilson's works... any of the rest of you besides Ryan notice the Ruth-Boaz allusion in Ashtown?
Mar 30, 2022 • 148h 25min
66: Pixar's Existential Dread
The guys are back after a long spring break to discuss Pixar—and this episode is the cheerful story of the decline of a creative giant. You'll learn what "heart-forward" content is, why Pixar's approach won parents and kids alike, and why Cars is their most profitable and worst movie (okay, worst is too strong). You'll also track the existential dread in Pixar's films, and see how that dread gradually overtook everything...at least until Disney days, because now Pixar is just a sticker to slap on content.
#TurningRed #MonstersInc #FindingNemo #TheIncredibles #Pixar #StoriesAreSoulFood #SASF
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Mar 15, 2022 • 114h 47min
65: Patronize Somebody
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Feb 28, 2022 • 185h 59min
64: LOTR The Rings of Power
Today: How to spend as much on a TV show as Russia’s GDP and end up with garbage.
The guys react to the LOTR trailer. But first…
Crazy ideas aren’t funny until they become reality. ND tells a story about a skeezy business.
Sneak peek at Nate’s new video project he’s working on.
#SASF #StoriesAreSoulFood #LOTR #RingsofPower
Feb 21, 2022 • 133h 11min
63: How to Watch a Movie
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Feb 14, 2022 • 136h 30min
62: Sheltering Mercy (feat. Ryan Whitaker Smith)
- Are you shaped by the Psalms? SASF welcomes filmmaker and author Ryan Whitaker Smith (son of Michael W. Smith) to discuss this soul food.
- They discuss the gutsiness of Ryan's new book: "Sheltering Mercy" is free verse renderings of the Psalms, through a messianic lens.
- You also get a sneak preview of Ryan's directing work on the upcoming film, "Surprised by Oxford."
#SASF #StoriesAreSoulFood #SurprisedbyOxford #ShelteringMercy
