It’s time to crown the Best (and Worst) of 2025.

In this special awards-style episode, the Nerd of Godcast crew debates the movies, TV shows, video games, villains, and pop-culture trends that defined the year. From Movie of the Year and TV Show That Owned 2025 to Best Video Game Experience, Best Villain, and the chaotic “Please Let This Die” Award, nothing is off limits.

We also spotlight Christian and nerdy content creators, explore moments where faith and fandom collided, and call out the trends we’re ready to leave behind. Expect big opinions, listener-driven results, and lively conversation at the intersection of pop culture and faith.

🏆 Best of 2025

🎮 Nerd culture debates

✝️ Faith & fandom

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What actually makes a Christmas story Christmassy? Is it snow, carols, and Santa… or something deeper?

In this special Christmas episode of Nerd of Godcast, the panel dives into what gives Christmas movies and stories their lasting power. From beloved classics to controversial picks like Die Hard and Batman Returns, we explore why stories set during Christmas often center on redemption, hope, sacrifice, reconciliation, and light breaking through darkness.

Along the way, we play festive games, laugh a lot, and unpack why these themes resonate so deeply this time of year. Ultimately, the conversation points back to the original Christmas story and why it continues to inspire us today.

If you love Christmas movies, pop culture debates, thoughtful faith conversations, and nerdy fun, this episode is for you.

Whether you’re team Home Alone, team Die Hard, or just here for the Christmas vibes, this episode invites you to rediscover why Christmas stories still matter.

This week, we’re talking about living your wildest dreams and becoming the person you’ve always wanted to be. The launching point comes from a moment caught during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — a little boy in a full Spider-Man suit watching the giant Spidey balloon being inflated from a fire escape, absolutely lost in awe. It’s a picture of innocence, possibility, and the belief that someday you could be something incredible.

We want to explore that feeling — the way childhood dreams once lit us up inside — and ask what it looks like to recapture that wonder as adults. Are God-given dreams still calling us forward? Have we traded imagination for practicality? And how does faith shape what we dare to become?

This episode will mix personal stories, nerd-culture inspiration, spiritual insights, and honest conversation about how to dream big again and pursue the person God created us to be.

This episode we talk to DeAnna Petruch, author of KidMin Pocket Guide: Neurodivergent Kids. We’ll talk about some of our favorite characters who are on the spectrum, about how neurodivergence shows up in nerd culture and media, and about what the church can do to better love and disciple neurodivergent kids (and teens and adults, too.)

We’ll also explore how representation can shape understanding, discuss the difference between helpful portrayals and harmful stereotypes, and share practical ways ministries and communities can become more inclusive and affirming.

PLUS—our King of All Nerds: Best Thing Ever bracket marches on, and we throw down a special 2 Question Interview all about Man's Best Friend… his cell phone.

Funny, thoughtful, nerdy, and heartfelt—this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

On this episode we create nerdy games to challenge, perplex and amuse based on the Bible, pop-culture and nerdy deep cuts! Won't you play along with us?

In this spooky-fun episode of Nerd of Godcast, the crew dives into the strange tension between fear and faith — why do we spend so much of life trying to avoid fear, yet seek it out for entertainment? From haunted houses to horror games, we explore what draws us to the things that make our skin crawl and how followers of Jesus can be wise about what we watch, play, and enjoy.

Join us for deep thoughts, dumb jokes, and the reminder that God hasn’t given us a spirit of fear (2 Timothy 1:7) — even when the Wi-Fi goes out in the graveyard.

Christians Are Crazy — or at least that’s what it can look like from the outside. In this tongue-in-cheek episode of the Nerd of Godcast, we take an honest look at the things church people do that seem perfectly normal to us but downright strange to anyone outside church culture. From singing about blood to raising hands and praying hedges of protection, we unpack the weird, wonderful, and occasionally cringey parts of Christian life — and how we can better represent our faith to a watching world.

We also cast our votes in this week’s Best Thing Ever tournament bracket, sit down with Eric Anderson, author of Dead False Gods, to talk faith and Stargate, and assign what might just be our worst Dumpster-Dive homework of the season.

If you’ve ever thought, “Christians are kind of crazy,” or if you’re one of us and want to laugh at ourselves while growing a little wiser — this episode is for you.

We weren't even supposed to be here today... cancelled guest, almost no crew, we don't even have a plan on what to talk about. But somehow things not going according to plan created a path for us to talk about the unexpected moments in our live that God uses to bring growth and fruitfulness.

We talk Star Trek, the Letterboxd App, throw down with this weeks Best Thing Ever and have a good time talking about what was, what wasn't and what might have been.