Rocketsled Studios Podcast

Daniel Taylor (Ph.D., Emory University) is the author of eighteen books, including The Myth of Certainty, Letters to My Children, Tell Me A Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories, Creating a Spiritual Legacy, The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner Atheist and four novels, Death Comes for the Decontructionist, Do We Not Bleed?, Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees, and The Mystery of Iniquity . He has also worked on a number of Bible translations. He speaks frequently at conferences,

In this episode, I got to talk with Tim Mahoney. Tim is the owner of Mahoney Media, Thinking Man Films, and Heroic Pictures. He is the director and producer of many movies including one of the most famous Christian documentaries, Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus. He is also the producer of a documentary coming out this Spring called The American Miracle.Tim and I discussed why he got into filmmaking and how he got started. We also talked about why risk is essential to the Christian life and why the

In this podcast, writer/director Cristóbal Krusen shares with Andy Schmitt how God led him to embrace his original love of filmmaking as well as stories from around the world where his films have changed lives.  Cris also shares his hopes for the next generation of Christian filmmakers. For more on Rocketsled Studios go to www.rocketsedstudios.com

In this podcast, Greg Silker (Producer) and Andy Schmitt (Producer) discuss the mission and vision of Rocketsled Studios and what it takes to create an animated children's series. They talk about the Tales of the Kingdom animated TV series, how they plan to create it, and how you can be a better storyteller! For more on Rocketsled Studios go to www.rocketsedstudios.com

In this episode, I got to talk with Michael Ward. Ward is an English literary critic and theologian at the University of Oxford where he serves as an associate member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion. He is the author of many books including Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis and After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. Dr. Ward is also a Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University in Texas. Most notably, Ward was in The World

In this episode, I got to talk with Austin Freeman. Freeman is the Chair of the Department of Apologetics and Assistant Professor at Houston Christian University. He recently wrote a book, Tolkien Dogmatics, that reveals the systematic theology found in Middle Earth through The Lord of the Rings books. Austin has also written for many publications including Desiring God. We discussed his book, Tolkien Dogmatics, and how he started on this endeavor to write a systematic theology based on a fantasy

In this episode, I got to sit down with the Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University, Dr. Hal Poe, and the Co-Director of the Wade Center in Wheaton, IL, Dr. David C. Downing. We talked about why it’s important for Christians to write fantasy stories, what inspired C.S. Lewis to write the Chronicles of Narnia, and the relationship between intellectual thinkers and creative artists. Dr. Hal Poe is a professor and author to many books including The Inklings of Oxford, Becoming C.S. Lewis,