well, my work is with post moderns… several, maybe most of my colleagues are too… so a dialogue between texts and people who are post modern may prove helpful to an old modernist like me
serving post moderns is launched
this blog will be a conversation about serving post moderns… it will investigate post modernity and those who think according to it to the end that they may be understood better and therefor, served with the gospel
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Jesus Camp
Last night I joined a few people at the Virginia Film Festival and saw the documentary “Jesus Camp.” I was troubled at several levels by this documentary. Here are some things that are bugging me:
Why did these people allow such access to their private worship? Are they so foolish to think that a documentary would further the cause of Christ or their cause? Did they think that Jesus would be served? Did they expect thier context and culture and theology to be explained? I differentiate because while they may be well meaning and devoted to God, their stuff really shows through in this film as being ill thought out. Thought? hmmm…
It irks me that both the film and the “moderators” (who were really commentators from UVa… lots of balance… yeah, right) failed to differentiate between groups as terms were thrown around: Evangelical, Fundamentalist and Pentecostal. Giving the Religious Studies prof her due, she did, when I asked, define the terms for the audience… she did clarify that Fundamentalists (over against fundamentalists, that difference will have to be another post) would never be caught dead in Jesus Camp as they have some very differing views. THIS IRKS ME because people ignorant of the different branches of Evangelicalism are being portrayed and represented by the figures in Jesus Camp. If Evangelicalism is an apple pie (‘cuz it is American – ugh) then the guys of the Jesus Camp ilk are one bit of apple in the pie (if that)… one of my colleagues there thinks they are a whole slice… I disagree, if they are a slice, then a very thin sliver of a slice, indeed. Jesus Camp DOES NOT represent the vast majority of Jesus followers.
Now that I have ranted, here are some places you can go to see and hear more perspectives… first… the trailer
next, ABC has a report you can view that will give you a taste of the film and it furthers my thesis that Jesus Camp is a picture of all followers of Jesus. Again, I contend, it is not.
last, one of the people portrayed in the film is a preacher by the name of Ted Haggard, he has responded on a sponsored web page that they apparently paid to have Google show it first when you Google “Jesus Camp”…
Okay, I doubt if this blog has seem the last of this topic… Unfortunately.
Hungary Violence Questioned
Hungarian unrest dealt with unfairly? The BBC reports the EU is asking questions… For those who are not familiar with European politics, this would be kind of like the US attorney General asking the NYPD to account for its actions… emphasis on “Kind of”…
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Violence
Iraq
Darfur
women being abused
suicide
Israel
Palestinians
violence
name calling
divisiveness
gossip
murder
crucifixion
Jesus understands
God help us
Christ have mercy
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Hungarian Revolution: rememberance and protest
TODAY, NOT just 1956… protests rage!!!!
Today there were amazing things happening in Budapest on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the revolution. To get an almost fair description what happened in 1956… watch this video from the VOA… click here
to see a set of pics from that era go to the BBC, click here
But a new “revolution” is afoot in Hungary right now… another set of BBC pics from Budapest TODAY
It is appropriate, in my opinion, that if the people see injustice today, then today is an appropriate day to protest… aren’t the memories of those who died for freedom honored by such?
And today I see another similarity… while the US pays attention to Iraq (like Suez Canal then), Darfur is raped and killed (like Hungary then)…
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