This past Monday, we announced our newest project from Checkpoint Church - the LVL2 Podcast! I want to use this space to explain more about what this will be and why it's important to our mission. We'll start with the easy one - what is the LVL2 Podcast? It's a new monthly podcast that will be airing on the Checkpoint Church Podcast Hub (where all of our features air) after airing live on our Twitch channel monthly. In the podcast, we will have a rotating cast of LVL2 members

I just want to go ahead and acknowledge what we’re all thinking - Yes, Bruce Banner, played by 54-year-old Mark Ruffalo, did, in fact, say, “Bruh,” in the first episode of She-Hulk. It wasn’t a fever dream, as much as we wish it were. But now that that’s out of the way - we can talk about the actual important and somewhat less cringy other stuff that we got to see in She-Hulk. Most notably, I kept getting distracted by the fact that the story they were seemingly going to tell

On August 12th, we had our first ever sub-stream called #WhyCheckpointChurch. If you were able to make it to the event, thank you! We had a blast playing games, spinning the sub wheel, hanging out, spinning the sub wheel, eating pizza, and, of course, spinning the sub wheel. It was a great time, but it was also a milestone for us as a community on Twitch. But not everyone can know the colloquialisms of the Twitch culture - so what does it even mean to sub to Checkpoint Church

Yep - you read that title right. We’re going to talk about it. I have to be honest that this whole topic makes me crazy uncomfortable, but I couldn’t help myself. I mean, if you want me to play your rogue-lite cult simulator game, then you better make it with adorable art and a ding-a-dang farming sim structure. Y’all know I’m a sucker for that Stardew Valley style of gaming. I had to dive into this game. And what I found when I started playing Cult of the Lamb was a brutally

Find Full Transcript Here: https://www.checkpointchurch.com/post/nerds-of-pray-heather Nerds of Pray is the podcast where Nerd Pastor Nathan Webb of Checkpoint Church sits down with some of the leading people in the realm of Nerd/Pop Culture Ministry. He asks them questions about their specific venture into the ministry, as well as what first led them to the intersection of faith and fandom. In this episode, Nathan sits down with Heather Moore, Deacon in the United Methodist

We announced about a month ago that Checkpoint would host a documentary screening and panelist discussion for Derek White's award-winning The Satanic Panic and the Religious Battle for the Imagination. We've garnered a good bit of excitement but also some questions and doubts that have raised my nerdy hackles a bit - so I thought this would be an excellent venue to address some of the concerns. The first concern was the cost of the event - $45 per ticket. To make this event m

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It's hard to believe this, but Checkpoint Church is officially in its THIRD year of existence. I was first appointed here in July 2020, but we didn't launch our website or Twitch until August. And now - here we are a full two years later. Out of curiosity, I pored over some of my initial Spirit leanings and brainstorms from those early days. Did you know I had plans to launch a storefront in Denver, NC, at one point? Logan and I even toured the city, looking at potential spot

If I’m honest, I wouldn’t have started Lycoris Recoil without Hideo Kojima tweeting about it. But hoo boy, am I glad that I did! If I hadn’t taken that first step into the world of the Lycoris, I would have missed out on perhaps some of the best spy world-building of this anime season. Plus, it’s essentially John Wick, but cute. Not to mention Chisato’s ability to singlehandedly takedown Goku, more than likely. She’s kind of my hero right now. But more than anything, this ani

Checkpoint is always striving to be on the cutting edge of the next great thing. Our goals may remain the same, but the things we try adapt, evolve and shift considerably. For example, we've just wrapped our Mileage Mania, changed our stream schedule, launched our Sermon Talkbacks today, and recently revealed that we are producing a Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion for The Satanic Panic and the Religious Battle for the Imagination. Things are always exciting when you'