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Posts tagged Madeleine L’Engle

Is it Christian?

The question remains, and while the companies are quick to promote their status as a producer of Christian art, it does not answer the question of what makes a piece of art Christian. If a Christian recording company produced a hard-core rock album, complete with Satanic references, drug use, plenty of F-bombs, and an album cover featuring a scantily clad woman being forced to smell a glove, I am wiling to bet that album would not be considered “Christian” and that company would be run out of town. It’s a long way from Nashville, to well, anywhere.

Say Yes to Christian Movies?

The latest consumer tie-in, a self-help book created because of a movie, is the perfect storm. A guy I know told me that a lot of good has come from this movie, and I would be the last one to disagree. God moves. But a lot of good has also come from Romeo and Juliet, and for a long time. Most recently, Donald Miller made me love that play in new and brilliant ways in his book Searching for God Knows What, and it wasn’t another self-help plan. I wonder if the latest Christian movie and its book will still be examined four hundred years from now.

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