“Most pastors woud be depressed if we knew how much more Braveheart changed men than our sermons.”
-Chris Seay, pastor and author of The Gospel According to Tony Soprano, from an interview for my upcoming New Man magazine article on making entertainment choices.
(the final Seay quote, I swear!)
Chris 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.
Another interview excerpt from my upcoming New Man magazine article on making entertainment choices from Chris Seay, pastor and author of The Gospel According to Tony Soprano. Seay was responding to a question about whether or not our entertainment choices are true, noble, pure, lovely, admirable, etc. (Phil. 4:8), and Seay made the point that what we dwell on is the important factor, not the specific content:
As I finished watching a film like Saved! this last week, I’ve got a choice as to what I dwell on, but I end up learning a great deal from it. That becomes our responsibility. We do what we have to do, you can’t say I
Another interview excerpt from my upcoming New Man magazine article, this time from Chris Seay, pastor and author of The Gospel According to Tony Soprano, talking about the fast food bashing documentary Super Size Me:
“More Christians need to watch this film than just about any out there. It preaches to us in a way that many pastors need to learn from.”
(For more on Super Size Me, check out the CT review, which includes a compilation of other reviews)
This weekend I received a spam message from Fidel Hendricks. Finally, someone who can get even more annoying questions asked about who he’s related to.
So… are you related to Jimi?
So… are you related to Castro?
Fidel Hendricks, I feel your pain (only half as much). I just can’t figure out why you’re lashing back at the world with really crappy spam messages trying to hock MS SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition.
The Twin Cities’ controversial light rail line is scheduled to start up next weekend on Saturday, June 26. Both local papers have been running articles on light rail and its historical cousin, the Twin Cities’ famous streetcar system. (Star Trib & Pioneer Press)
Couldn’t help but notice the cheeky write up of a local yo-yo contest in the Star Trib. There but for more compelling interests go I.
Before becoming a ground-breaking children’s author, Dr. Seuss illustrated ads for a number of companies, including Ford, General Electric, Standard Oil, and NBC. The University of California San Diego houses the Dr. Seuss Collection, which includes examples of these advertising illustrations, and they recently scanned the collection and made it available online.
For more on Dr. Seuss’ career beyond his well known children’s books, check out The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel, and The Seuss, The Whole Seuss, and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel. (link via Jordon Cooper)
More interesting research on blogs, this time showing how often the media talks about blogs, with the frequency of articles on blogging skyrocketing in the spring of 2004 (follow the link and check out the nifty graph).
