Nathan Clarkson

Yeah.

So what, Nathan, would you say are your personal practices you use to avoid that kind of outrage, addiction, infantilization? And what practices have you observed in the data that you've seen?

Yeah, well, I'm blessed with perfection.

It's such a burden for you.

If you tear down our blesses and curses, that is a very small part of the kingdom of God with very little damage.

Blesses and curses of the week where we take a work of art, media, or resource and recommend it, i.e. bless it or diss it, i.e. curse it.

So Nathan, what are your hot takes, blesses and curses today?

OK, so blesses.

I'm your host, Joseph Holmes, film critic, culture critic, certified city mouse, and with me, as always, is my consistently cosmopolitan co-host.

Nathan Clarkson, actor, author, filmmaker, and city-slickin' country boy.

Ooh, I like that.

It's got the nice little paradox.

Also bring your best memes, best intellectual memes.

We want you among our ranks over there.

If you want to get in touch with me, go to NathanClarkson.me or search my name Nathan Clarkson on any of the socials and you might just see pictures of me either rurally or locally somewhere in the world.

And you can guess where I am at any given time.

I'm your host, Joseph Holmes, film critic, filmmaker, self-appointed icon, and with me as always is my catastrophically creative co-host.

Nathan Clarkson, actor, author, filmmaker, and creative icon in my own mind and imagination.

Yes, exactly.

We're just waiting for other people to get on board with that.

Cool.

Most of us today remember growing up experiencing, I think, a conflict between artistic creativity and religious faith.

Hey, Nathan Clarkson, you wrote a book on his experience about how Hollywood, the center of modern storytelling and the church seems to be consistently hate each other.

Famous artist and Christian Okoto Fujimura wrote about the struggle that he and other artists have getting support from the church in his seminal work, Art and Faith.

Okay, with Nathan Clarkson, Act of Contrition is the 37-minute short film.

I call these the epic short films, but it works.

It works really well.

And with me, as always, is my perpetually personable sh- co-host

Nathan Clarkson, actor, author, filmmaker, and someone who likes the idea-

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... of friends and humanity, but someone who often gets annoyed at friends and humanity.

And so it's just kind of...

So that was, you know, one thing.

And of course, you know, I'll say meeting Nathan Clarkson right here sitting next to me is saying, okay, that came about because you said, "Okay, well, I care about my faith, and I care about filmmaking.

I'm gonna be in environments where other people like that are gonna be," which ended up going to the Christian Film Festivals, and we were able to be- meet each other that way.