Author Archives: davetcourt

It’s that time of year again when I start to look back before looking ahead, reflecting on my favorite and most important watches/reads/listens and engaging with my ongoing new years reflections on the year as a whole (i use a practice called Rosebud). I thought I would start with pulling out what I consider toContinue reading “My Top10 Most Important Reads of 2021: #10 The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone”

This past week I watched the original Matrix in preparation for the release of Resurrection, the fourth film in the series. I was curious to see how it held up as it’s been a while, and also because I didn’t enjoy the sequels, and so the first one had gotten buried beneath my growing disinterestContinue reading “The Matrix: A Story of God With Us in the Incarnation, Crucifixion and Resurrection”

In a previous post I found myself in a place of pondering and wondering; asking myself not what it is that I believe but why I believe when it comes to God, humanity, creation and life. I reflected on how the older I get the less interesting the what becomes and the more crucial theContinue reading “Encountering the Incarnation: God With Us Then, Here and Now”

A culmination of reading, viewing, listening, online and in person dialogue, and self reflection has had me thinking these past couple weeks about my faith in God. Not so much how it is I know God exists; the older I get the less interesting that question becomes on both sides of the apologetic fence, andContinue reading “Why I Believe: Finding Presence, Hope and Mystery in Advent”

Reading all of these articles as of late about how the new augmented reality of Meta, Facebooks rebranding and refocusing, is going to destroy our world has left me with in a weird point of crisis. Perhaps a crisis of meaning. I’ve spent the last number of years using online spaces to speak about andContinue reading “Facebook, Meta, Change and Resistance”

I find myself pondering this morning; As a socialist leaning individual, by which I mean where tension exists between the rights of the individual and concern for the collective I uphold the necessary value of setting my rights as secondary to the good of the whole, it is difficult to find space where I canContinue reading “Words, Labels and Identity- Feeling Lost in the Unsafe Spaces of our World”

Movies Spencer (2021, Pablo Larrain) Spencer boasts a perfectly off kilter and eccentric personality befitting both its leading star and its subject matter. From the brilliant and immersive opening sequence, which sees Diana as someone lost in a world intent on containing her larger than life persona, we are introduced to this potential future QueenContinue reading “Month in Review: Memorable Reads, Listens, and Watches for November, 2021”

Wrote a piece in reflection on a recent podcast episode I did with the Fear of God on the film My Life as a Zucchini and the subject of adoption. Availble at the Fear of God website here

Wrote a piece for the Fear of God Podcast site on the recent release from Chvrches, Screen Violence, in conversation with a book by Alexander West on the Final Girl trope and the horror cycle of the 90’s. Available here

Wrote a piece for the Fear of God Podcast on the film and book The Last Duel in conversation with the book The Nolan Variations and a recent episode of The Bible Project. Available here