InJoe Bustillos WritesbyJoe Bustillos·Aug 26Video Wednesdays: The End of Oak Street or What Not To Do If Your Neighborhood Gets Dropped Into A…Apparently suburban folk in the early 1980s had zero survival instincts and took way too long to recognize imminent danger. At first it…
InJoe Bustillos WritesbyJoe Bustillos·Mar 25Video Wednesdays: Project Hail Mary, Good but… — JosephBruceBustillos.comI’m usually the one who tells my friend, Deb, not to compare the movie with the book it’s based on or previous versions of the story… I…
InJoe Bustillos WritesbyJoe Bustillos·Nov 20, 2025Video Wednesdays: Biking Through a Battlefield (Portland) — JosephBruceBustillos.comThis one popped up in my feeds today… I wonder why?… I’ve been watching Ray Delahanty’s CityNerd Youtube channel for some time and while…
InJoe Bustillos WritesbyJoe Bustillos·Aug 13, 2025Crash Course Religions #17: Death and Afterlife Across Religions And What Isn’t In the Bible —…I’m taking a course at the Biblical Studies Academy called Demons and Ghosts in the Bible, and a couple of interesting take-aways from this…
InJoe Bustillos WritesbyJoe Bustillos·Aug 6, 2025Crash Course Religions #16: Who Speaks for a Religion & Your Religious Journey —…I love Crash Course Religions because they do not shy away from topics that are very important to religious folks. The idea of where…
InJoe Bustillos WritesbyJoe Bustillos·Jul 30, 2025Crash Course Religions #15: What Does Ritual Have To Do With Religion… Again?Ritual. Funny that John Green begins this video by remembering a specific behavior that he used to do as part of his daily ministerial…
InJoe Bustillos WritesbyJoe Bustillos·Jul 23, 2025Crash Course Religions #14: How do Religious Texts Work?That’s such a great way to begin this conversation: the sacred texts didn’t change, but the church/religious practice did… What’s up with…
InJoe Bustillos WritesbyJoe Bustillos·Jul 17, 2025Crash Course Religions #13: Is Atheism a Religion? Again? — JosephBruceBustillos.comI wrote an essay about this question back in the day (before I was posting essays on the Internet…) and it seemed clear to me that atheism…A response icon1A response icon1
InJoe Bustillos WritesbyJoe Bustillos·Jun 25, 2025Video Wednesdays: The Life of Chuck: A View from the Ending — JosephBruceBustillos.comIt’s difficult deciding how much one should know about a film before watching it for the first time. That’s why I sometimes hate movie…
InJoe Bustillos WritesbyJoe Bustillos·Jun 18, 2025Video Wednesdays: But I’m a Cheerleader: Not Just Another Teen Sex Comedy — JosephBruceBustillos.comHuman sexuality, much less gender identification, is a lot for a teenager to deal with. Growing up a child of the 1960s and ’70s we were…
