Art/Film/Literature
Most Jews Not Against the Passion!
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004Tim sent me this incredible article written by a rabbi about why Jews SHOULD not be against the passion and indeed that most aren’t.
It is worth your time for a thorough read. Some highlights:
Those Jewish organizations that have squandered both time and money futilely protesting Passion, ostensibly in order to prevent pogroms [...]
Ragamuffin Gospel II
Wednesday, February 11th, 2004Well, it’s looking like I will only get around to this once every-so-often. Here is another great excerpt from Chapter 1.
Something is radically wrong when the local church rejects a person accepted by Jesus: when a harsh, judgmental and unforgiving sentence is passed on homosexuals; when a divorcee is denied communion’ when the child [...]
Ragamuffin Gospel I
Tuesday, February 10th, 2004So I read chapter 1 today. I want to do a post for every chapter I read, with a quote that particularly hit me. But, it is so hard to chose just one. I guess I’ll go with a quote where Manning quotes someone else :)
Any church that will not accept that [...]
Ragamuffin Gospel Intro
Monday, February 9th, 2004Wow.
“In our society, we tend to swear unyielding allegiance to a rigid position, confusing that action with finding an authentic connection to a life-giving Spirit. We miss the gospel of Christ: the good news that, although the holy and all-powerful God knows we are dust, He still stoops to breathe into us the breath [...]
Marketing the Passion
Thursday, February 5th, 2004Interesting article on the marketing push for The Passion of the Christ film.
“This is a window of opportunity we have. Here’s a guy who’s putting his money into a movie that has everything to do with what we do,” Engel said. “Churches used to communicate by having a little lecture time on Sunday morning. People [...]
Opposed to Passion
Monday, February 2nd, 2004Well, I knew it would happen, but here comes another strong wave of opposition to the Passion of the Christ Movie
The weird thing is mostly that they (they being religious leaders “christian” and otherwise) are complaining… mostly that this movie presents the gospel. Surprise.
My favorite section though:
“Do I think there will be pogroms [...]
Purpose Driven Life
Monday, January 12th, 2004The Purpose Driven Life We are beginning the 40 Days of Purpose campaign at church this week. PDL’s premise is that we have 5 purposes in life. We exist for:
Worship - bring pleasure to God Discipleship - grow in character Fellowship - be as committed to our church family as we are to Christ Ministry [...]
Not even a hint 3
Tuesday, January 6th, 2004Have I mentioned yet that this is a good book, and I highly recommend it to anyone: male, and female?
Half a poison pill won’t kill you
Here’s the mistake I have often made. I know that media contains a certain amount of sinful content that is dangerous. but instead of seeing how much [...]
Not even a hint 2
Sunday, January 4th, 2004Funny thing… I did a google search for “Not Even a Hint” (it’s a book by Joshua Harris, highly recommended) the other day, and noticed that my site, with it’s one comment on “Not even a hint” was 5th in line in the google search (looking at it just now i have dropped a few). [...]
Elendil’s Heir
Wednesday, December 24th, 2003If you haven’t read the books several times, there are several huge parts of Return of the King that you will miss.
First of all: going in to the movie I knew there were two scenes, that if left out, would ruin the movie for me. One was a very small flashback (in the books) [...]
Elessar
Monday, December 22nd, 2003By far, the character I relate to the most in The Lord of the Rings is Aragorn. Both in the books and in the movies.
He was simultaneously my favorite character in the movies, and my biggest beef with the movies. Viggo Mortensen’s Aragorn was far different from Aragorn of the books. In [...]
A King’s Ransom
Monday, December 22nd, 2003The numbers speak for themselves folks.
U.S. Weekend box office earnings.
“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” $73.6 million. “Mona Lisa Smile,” $12 million. “Something’s Gotta Give,” $11.5 million. “The Last Samurai,” $7.3 million. “Stuck on You,” $5.4 million. “Elf,” $5 million. “Bad Santa,” $4.3 million. “The Haunted Mansion,” $4.2 million. “Love Don’t Cost a Thing,” $4 million. “Honey,” $2.6 million.
Experts are [...]
Great Movie
Friday, December 12th, 2003Yes, it surprises me too, but Pirates of the Caribbean was a great movie. Highly recommended. Clean, funny, fun, with a slight moral (greed doesn’t satisfy!). If you are looking for a good party movie, date movie, or just a good laugh, pick this one up.
I am currently working on a followup [...]
Not Even a hint
Saturday, November 29th, 2003I was going to write about how awesome our President is, but I¹ll leave that up to Pat. Instead I am going to embark on a week long commentary on a book I¹m reading.
It¹s by Joshua Harris (yes, the I Kissed Dating Goodbye dude). Called Not Even a Hint. So far, [...]
