Welcome to Plumb News! This week, we're exploring how animation can turn imagination into truth.

At its best, animation does more than dazzle. It reveals. Beneath the color and movement, we find stories about courage and shame, grace and guilt. Worlds of fantasy and faith aren't opposites; they're mirrors, reflecting both the beauty and the brokenness we carry.

Because when belief meets imagination, something sacred happens. Light finds new shapes. Truth takes on color. And even the most unlikely stories can help us see ourselves — still fragile, still flawed, but always being made new.

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A vivid mix of pop spectacle and quiet conviction, this animated fantasy transforms a clash of idols and monsters into something profoundly human. Beneath its pulse and color runs a story of release — how truth disarms shame and grace rewrites what guilt distorts. It’s bold and unexpectedly redemptive, showing us that healing can often look like revelation.

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In “Nightcrawler” (Season 3, Episode 18), Wolverine shares one of the most unexpectedly sincere moments in Saturday-morning history — a conversation about sin, forgiveness, and redemption that feels straight out of a Sunday sermon. Yes, it really happened. Watching it now, it’s surprisingly moving to see a superhero wrestle with grace instead of villains, a reminder that faith has always found its way into the most unlikely stories.

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At first glance, K-Pop Demon Hunters seems like a collision of everything parents are told to avoid: neon demons, magic sigils, pop idols saving the world with choreography. But beneath its glitter and noise hides a story older than any genre — the fight to name what haunts us and to find freedom in the truth.

For some viewers, that imagery feels off-limits, echoing the same anxiety that surrounds fictional story universes like Harry Potter and Dungeons & Dragons. Each generation of believers has asked the same enduring question: when does fantasy cross the line from imagination to idolatry? Yet, if you look closely, this film isn’t inviting us into darkness so much as asking us to recognize it.

Its villain, Gwi-Ma, isn’t the devil in disguise; he’s the shape shame takes when it convinces us that our wounds define us. And its heroine, Rumi, doesn’t just defeat him through her powers, but by facing the lie that she is beyond redemption. What looks like a battle of demons is, in truth, a reckoning of the soul — a parable about confession, identity, and grace.

That’s why K-Pop Demon Hunters feels closer to The Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia than to the occult tales it’s been compared to. Tolkien and Lewis both built worlds filled with monsters and magic, not to glorify darkness but to dramatize the human condition, showing that even imagined evil can point toward real hope. This film, knowingly or not, follows their lead.

Because stories don’t need sermons to carry scripture, sometimes the gospel slips in disguised as myth.

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Equal parts adorable and alarming, this animated series reimagines epic Bible stories through the eyes of teddy bears — complete with the chaos, courage, and calamity of the source material. Currently fundraising on Loor TV, it’s an unexpected mix of plush and peril that somehow works, proving that conviction and creativity can coexist.

There’s no shortage of biblical adaptations, but few this bold... or this fuzzy. Keep an eye on Bearly Biblical as it claws its way toward more completed episodes.

_{*Plumb News is not affiliated with this project or Loor TV and does not receive compensation for featuring it. We’re highlighting it because we believe stories like this deserve support.}

“But everything exposed by the light becomes visible — and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.” - Ephesians 5:13 (NIV)

We often think of light as something that keeps darkness at a distance. But Scripture reminds us it doesn’t just reveal what’s hidden — it transforms it. Exposure isn’t punishment; it’s participation in redemption.

In the radiance of truth, even what once shamed us can begin to shine. Shame insists that the past disqualifies the present, that our scars disprove grace. As David writes in Psalm 34:5 (NIV), “Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.” Radiance isn’t the absence of wounds but the reflection of what God has already healed.

Stories of redemption — on screen or in life — often begin with the same paradox: broken things glow when placed in holy light. When faith makes room for honesty, and honesty gives way to surrender, the light becomes personal. It doesn’t just reveal what’s wrong; it shows what can be redeemed.

So this week, when the dark feels closer than the light, remember that grace doesn’t retreat. It moves toward us with the power to heal what’s been broken.

Until next time,

THE PLUMB NEWS TEAM