April can often be a slower month in the pop culture world. The first quarter of the year is usually jam-packed with exciting announcements for the latter half of the year. Typically things fizzle out until the summer blockbuster season ramps up into overdrive with the warmer months and with kids getting out of school. But, like most other aspects of a post-pandemic world, the usual suspects are out of consideration. April 2021 has been jam-packed, bringing a smorgasbord of m

I love watching anime. I'm sure that this comes as no surprise to any of our regulars at Checkpoint Church or To The Point readers. One thing that I've recently discovered is that anime providers (Toonami, Funimation, CrunchyRoll, VRV) all hold different places in my brain depending on their stinger music for their product. My favorite is the haunting "A-NI-PUH-LECKS" of the Aniplex theme. These infectious little ear bugs are hard to craft, but addicting once developed. I was

Our latest nerdy deep dive centered around the new Netflix Anime series The Way of the Househusband, based on the original manga by Kousuke Oono. There are a few interesting tidbits to know about this series—with me personally and the series itself. First off, I proudly call myself a Day One fan here, but that’s really a pure coincidence. I am an avid manga fan and try to stay up to date on the latest series. In my best attempt to read the first volumes being adapted into Eng

It can be a challenge to serve an online church. It's a challenge to serve an online community, in general. But it takes on an interesting twist when it's specifically an online church. The difficulty comes out of the abundant anonymity. As the pastor, I don't often get to know what our regulars look like, sound like, or even what their real names are—unless Jeremy123 is actually on their birth certificate. However, recently I have discovered that, while difficult, it isn't i

I was incredibly fortunate to have received my second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine this week. Thanks to my awesomely proactive wife, I was able to sign up as soon as Group C became available here in North Carolina. Now, nearly a month after my first dose, I am seeing that the number of folks going in for vaccination is fewer and fewer. This is concerning, but I am far from an immunologist or a medical professional. I'm not here to tell you why you should get vaccinated

Is it just me? Maybe it's just me. Either way, I can't help but feel that Checkpoint Church is at an exciting turning point. We're nearly at five hundred followers on Twitch. Our community is growing on Discord and on Facebook. I feel like we are all really getting to know one another in an awesome way. And it might be time for a new evolution. My favorite game genre is a tie between farming simulators and Japanese Role-Playing Games (JRPG), I can recall playing some of my fa