What’s This About?

Are You Just Watching? is about critical thinking for Christians as they watch popular media such as movies and TV shows. We are more than a Christian reviews site since PluggedIn Online already does such a wonderful job. We take a critical look at philosophies and ideas behind and promoted by entertainment media, and then discuss these based on a biblical worldview. For example, the evolutionism in Jurassic Park, the user-program relationship in Tron, or the messianic characteristics of Neo in the Matrix trilogy. Each conversation has one end-objective in mind, that you don’t just watch, but also think and learn.

Are You Just Watching? is produced and sponsored by D.Joseph Design. The opening vocal talent is thanks to Mariah. Our theme song is used courtesy of Answers in Genesis, from their exciting vacation Bible school curriculum, Operation Space.

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About Daniel Lewis

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Although I thoroughly enjoy science fiction, action, adventure, and comedy entertainment genres, my deepest passion is for the authority of the Bible. I have an academic background in music composition and Christian ministry, but I’m employed full-time and freelance as a digital designer. Figure out that one! But I do also teach children in my own church, and do some speaking in other churches.

In addition to cohosting Are You Just Watching?, I host a comedy podcast, the Ramen Noodle, about my hilarious life as an "elite bachelor," and I perform stand-up comedy under the same title. But don’t think that I’m all-geek! I’m a black belt martial artist and I enjoy "real" hobbies like cooking, swimming, volleyball, and I especially love to dig into God’s Word.

I like to sum up and motivate myself with a simple phrase: to God—and God alone—be the glory!

About Eve Franklin

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I’m an avid reader and movie lover. There’s not much I like better than reading a book and then seeing the movie version, or watching a movie and then reading the novelization. I have a degree in English literature, which means that at some point in my life I actually received grades for discussing and writing essays about literature. Can’t get much better than that, right? Well, it can. Who needs to pull apart the deep inner workings of dusty old classics when there’s such wonderful fodder in the mass media that people watch (and read) everyday?

Above all, I believe that I can’t do much better in this life than in pointing my friends toward a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Everything makes perfect sense when viewed from a Christian worldview. Even when the intent of the writer was something entirely different, everything can point to our Creator God. He is the foundation for every logical thought, the judge of all evil, and the author of all beauty.