A Thousand Questions
// August 13th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Movies
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CNN reports on Jesus for President
// June 29th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Article, General, Link, Movies, Resources
The lead story on CNN.com right now is Jesus for President!
They are a bit too focused on the political end instead of the faith end, but it’s still cool.
Movie of Shane Claiborne Speaking
// December 11th, 2006 // No Comments » // Movies
Shane Claiborne at Fusion Youth
Duration: 50:55
Created: Wed, 01 Nov 2006
Category: Documentary
Speaker: Shane Claiborne
Discovered the following hour-long video on YouTube of Shane Claiborne, author of the incredible book Irresistible Revolution, speaking at a youth conference. If you’ve read the book, they are stories you’ve already heard. If not, it might be a good introduction.
Christian vs. Christ-follower
// December 8th, 2006 // No Comments » // Commentary, Movies
Christian vs. Christ-follower
Created: Wed, 01 Nov 2006
My friend Colin just sent me a link to a set of Christian parodies of the Mac/PC commericals. It’s a great concept, but I’m afraid they fall short.
Essentially it’s an issue of good concept, poor articulation. These are anti-Christendom, but leave one thinking that being a Follower of Jesus is even more meaningless. They spent a lot of time dismantling Christendom but failed to equally develop what it means to Follow Jesus.
My friend and housemate Ryan provided a very good critique:
Good application of the Mac/PC ads. But, as Colin says, poor and lukewarm generalization of Christian and ‘Christ-Follower’ (Shouldn’t they be the same? Let’s not draw even more lines to define who we are by differentiating ourselves
from others.) Another attempt to market Christ on a platform of feel-good Christianity? Probably. “Hey, I smoke, have a tongue-piercing, don’t take showers, AND I love Jesus; so that makes my relationship with Christ more authentic and me more ‘real’, man.†Would have been better if the ads de-emphasized the very things it brought to light.
At any rate I think they are interesting and worth discussing.
