Mindful Entertainment
June 21st, 2004 Posted in God, Church & StuffChris Seay, pastor and author of The Gospel According to Tony Soprano, made a powerful point about entertainment in an interview for my upcoming New Man magazine article on making entertainment choices that ties in nicely with Gene Edward Veith’s comments about entertainment saturation:
I don’t know if we ever get to watch something just for entertainment. There really are better things to do with our time. Sometimes there are things we thoroughly enjoy and are funny — our God’s a God of laughter and humor and story. Almost anything we look for we find spiritual truth in it.
‘Entertainment’ applies to mindlessly absorbing without a purpose. I don’t think we ever get to do anything that isn’t purposeful. We should be thinking reflectively about what we see. That does put us in a different place than the rest of people in culture that are looking for an escape.
