Link to the show: Young Adult Movie Ministry Episode 27 on Substack
Release date: January 25, 2021
Movie of the Week
A Walk to Remember (2002), directed by Adam Shankman
[On Netflix; Digital rental on Amazon | iTunes | YouTube]
Who the Hosts Are This Week
Sam is a bad boy who just needs to be saved. Alissa is a really lovely little pink sweater.
Special Guest
Katelyn Beaty, acquisitions editor at Brazos Press, former managing editor of Christianity Today, and author of A Woman’s Place.
Other Mentions
- The Nicholas Sparks novel behind the movie
- Dawson’s Creek (its sets were used for A Walk to Remember)
- I Still Believe (movie by/about Christian musician Jeremy Camp)
- Sam: “Wilmington is the Mos Eisley cantina of North Carolina”
- “Flood” by Jars of Clay
- Switchfoot (cool-ish CCM)
- Rachael Lampa (another CCM artist with a song on the soundtrack – I’ll cross pollinate here and link her great interview w/ Andrew Osenga on The Pivot)
- I Kissed Dating Goodbye
- Christian Mingle (another missionary dating movie to be watched after Dry January is over)
- Fireproof
- Heaven Is For Real (discussed on Episode 8)
- The Last Song (Nicholas Sparks movie with Miley Cyrus and the baby sea turtles)
- See You At The Pole
- WWJD bracelets
- The Edge of Seventeen
- Cruel Intentions
- Kevin Williamson (screenwriter of Dawson’s Creek and the Scream movies)