This week, Rich and Ben take some time to discuss the new fall television season, including several new and returning shows. They discuss The Event, Glee, My Generation, The Office, Community, 30 Rock, Outsourced, and more! What’s good, what’s bad, and what’s in between? And what do all of these shows say about our culture? Listen and find out.
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Richard Clark (Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief) has spent his entire life writing, reading, listening, and playing. He has a Bachelors in Theology from the Baptist College of Florida and has a Master of Arts in Theology and the Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives in Louisville, KY where he is the classroom technology manager at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to writing at Christ and Pop Culture, he is also a staff writer for 
Just caught up on the podcast with this week’s episode. I wanted to make a point about Glee…
The inconsistency in Glee’s characters (particularly the students), the constant regression, the way that the ‘summer break’ seemed to erase all the lessons they had learned in the previous school year – these are all things that I see on a constant basis as a youth pastor. It takes learning the same lesson over and over and over again before it really sticks.
I understand that it doesn’t make for the greatest television, but it is true to life.