On this week’s episode of The Christian Nerd Podcast,Scott and Ron begin with “The Nerd News.” They discuss Vanity Fair’s article on The Force Awakens and they also share some very confused thoughts about Secret Wars #1. In “From the Blog” they talk about Jeremy Renner’s use of the word “slut” to describe Black Widow. ScottRead more
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Yesterday I wrote about my favorite female comic book characters. Jeremy Renner reneged on his apology for calling Black Widow a slut during an interview. That kind of objectification and misogyny, even if it’s just for a fictional character, can impact how we treat people in the real world. So to balance out Renner’s opinions,Read more
Last week while promoting Avengers: Age of Ultron, Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner jokingly called Black Widow a “slut.” The joke wasn’t very funny and Evans and Renner apologized. However, earlier this week on Conan, Renner backed off from his apology and again called Black Widow a slut for merely being connected to four ofRead more
Disney hasn’t been resting on its laurels since purchasing Star Wars and Marvel. Disney continues to grow the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it is planning a similar expansion of that galaxy far, far away. Disney has already set release dates for Episodes VII-IX, movies for which I couldn’t be more excited. Disney is also delvingRead more
For the past two months Ron and I have been working on launching the podcast (which you can subscribe to here). For the past few weeks I’ve been working on updating the website with a more responsive theme and more flexible hosting. Everything was going so well last week and I was excited to finallyRead more
I’m very excited to welcome you to the new Christian Nerd! We’ve got a new design that will improve the experience for those of you accessing the site from a mobile platform. The new design will also provide more flexibility for me as The Christian Nerd marches into the future. The redesign is a workRead more