It’s crazy how long it’s going on! I remember watching season 1 the year my youngest was born!

Lights and the Creel house.

Scoops ahoy and the graveyard of lost characters.

Waffle bar

We will also have an icecream bar.

Can I just say that a Cameron Poe gif is the sort of energy I really love?

We will miss you!

I could contribute:

Anything related to the latest releases of books (almost any genre).

Publishing industry info.

Christian higher ed info.

Horror movies. Anything horror related.

Mega churches, specifically their deformative practices.

Planners and journals.

Charcuterie boards

What is hell? What sorts of views of hell have there been within the history of Christianity?

What is the nature of evil? What gives it power?

This was a great October horror addition. I was pleasantly surprised with the directions that the movie went and it sparked good conversations.

All in all, it sparked great convos with the high schoolers:

What does it mean to have true faith? Is it more than not cussing and good behavior?

What is spiritual bypassing? Why is it not only unhelpful from a clinical perspective but also theologically problematic?

Derrickson also explores the idea of hell, and that was the most interesting conversation that came the movie for me and my kids and their high school friends. Annihilationism seemed to be the concept being explored, so we talked about the various articulations of hell throughout church history.

Probably my favorite part was the incisive critique on religious hypocrisy. The religious characters with religious “right speak,” are the cowards who do not have the moral fortitude to do much in the face of evil. Our center of Christlike behavior is the owner of the camp, Armando.

This is a movie that explores how these kids might cope with the trauma after the first movie, and some are more using more effective coping techniques than others. The family trauma from the first movie is still very much there and very much wreaking havoc on Finny, Gwen, and their dad.

If you don’t like that sort of “What are the rules of evil,” exposition, then yeah, you may be disappointed, but I love that sort of stuff.

The first movie delves into the supernatural, but this movie explores it from some new and interesting angles. Whereas the first movie just has some established supernatural elements to that just are self-evident to the universe, this movie explores more of the bounds and rules of the supernatural.