Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Gaye Morris who lives in North Carolina and was previously based in in the UK and with whom I collaborated about 15 years ago on a book called Theology and Film. We talk about our rationale in writing it and the relationship between the Christian and the secular world. It was a validation of working on popular culture and there is a fascinating moment when Gaye talks about how she got to talk with Linda Hamilton on a plane about a chapter on The Terminator that appeared in a previous theology and film book that she edited. Gaye taught public speaking and media and communication studies, and a few religion and film classes, at Augusta State University and now teaches public speaking to undergraduates. We learn that Gaye’s father was in the military and as a family they tended to move around. She remembers fooling around on a farm as a child and how she thought that Santa was asking her from the basement if she had been good. We talk about her magical memories of Christmas from when