The unsung and oppressed characters of Roma and If Beale Street Could Talk function as secular saints, figures who model lives of devotion and faithfulness.

Show Notes

Emily Belz on Roma.

Abby Olcese on She-Ra.

Claude Atcho on If Beale Street Could Talk.

Josh Larsen on Moonlight.

Claude on Shut Up and Dribble.

John J. Thompson's 'Secular Saints at the Oscars' Spotify playlist.

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Josh Larsen is senior producer for Think Christian and host/producer of the TC podcast. He's also the co-host of Filmspotting, as well as the author of Movies Are Prayers and Fear Not! A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies. You can connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, and Letterboxd.

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Abby Olcese is a freelance writer and author of Films for All Seasons. Find more of her writing on film and popular culture at Sojourners. You can also follow her on Twitter.

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“JJT” has been chasing the thread dangling between eternal truths and temporal creative experiences for nearly three decades. He is a writer, a businessman, a father, an artist, and a seeker. Read more about him at True Tunes.

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Claude Atcho serves as the pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Charlottesville, Va. He has previously served as a church planter and an adjunct English professor in Boston, Mass. He is the author of Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just. Follow him on Twitter @claudeatcho.

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