Tag: Mass Media and Culture

  • Left Behind Eternal Forces – Violence for Christians

    Today in the Los Angeles Times, there is an article about a new “Christian” video game: Left Behind: Eternal Forces. The game aims to make a broadly appealing video game, similar to Grand Theft Auto; it is a “real-time” strategy game that “features plenty of biblical smiting, albeit with high-tech weaponry as players battle the…

  • What Evangelicalism is: Part II

    I am not sure where I fall, nor do I really think it matters all that much, in the Evangelical rubric, but I can affectionately repeat what Brian McLaren says about Evangelicalism in his book A Generous Orthodoxy,“Big E Evangelical refers to a segment of the church that I love and from which I hail,…

  • writing letters with bread for the world’s holly hight

    Last night our mennonite/quaker small group wrote letters to our congressional representatives concering hunger issues in the world.  It was my first time to participate in this kind of advocacy and I thought that it was incredible.  It only took about 15 min.

  • the media, culture and the past year #1

    In any case we’ve gotten at least more interested in TV shows.A Bit About MediaIn”The (Magic) Kingdom of God: Christianity and Global Culture Industries” Michael Budde he talks about the “old art of TV bashing” and quite frankly his tv-bashing is pretty good – because what he points out is the impossibility to cultivate kingdom…