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This free automatic Advent Video Calendar will display a different thought provoking video each day from 1st – 24th December, featuring speakers such as Philip Yancey, Krish Kandiah, Anna Robbins and Nick Pollard (you can preview all the videos before you install this). To install it on your website or blog just use the following code, then it [...] Nativity!
Nativity! with Martin Freeman and Marc Wootton. Image courtesy E1 Enterntainment Damaris has been asked by E1 Entertainment to create official resources to help churches, schools and community groups make the most of Nativity! (UK release: 27th November, certificate U), a wonderful family film containing a clear presentation of an important part [...] I often lead film discussions, and equally often I’m asked to recommend films that are good for talking about. So here’s a list. It’s nowhere near exhaustive, merely a bunch of films that I’ve either used or that I’m confident would be great. I”ll add to this list as other things occur to me and as new films come out. The Culturewatch website, for which I am Managing Editor, is a great place to find discussion guides – around 500 of them, though they’re not all on films. I’ll try to link some of the title below to their discussion guides when I get a [...] Damaris produced an advent calendar for WesleyOwen.com. I contributed three of the short slots. The first, Day 2, is a summary of the Old Testament in a minute. I know, it’s a bit fast. You’ll have to click on the doors to find out about the others! Once more good intentions of keeping up with blogging have gone the way of most good intentions. Anyway, the book, Focus: The Art and Soul of Cinema was officially published last Friday. My copies arrived on Monday – always an exciting moment to see the results of so much hard work nicely printed (11 pt [...] Well, I’m behind schedule with just two weeks to go and a lot of revisions to do as well as writing appendices and other stuff. I’m pleased with what I’ve done, though, and hope it will make a valuable and distinctive contribution. More soon – when I have some time again! tony It’s about time I said something about my current writing project. I am getting towards the end of writing a book about engaging with film at a worldview level. There are a number of books written by Christians which look at connections between films and theology – some of them extremely good. Robert K. Johnstone’s [...] Number four in the Talking About series created problems for us in trying to find the right subtitle. The Playing God bit was easy, but trying to summarise the area of interest in just a very few words was tricky. The ‘ethics in medicine’ part is straightforward enough – looking at issues relating to the [...] Books 3 and 4 in the Talking About series were published in early May this year. I was satisfied with the first two, but very pleased with how these two have ended up. They have a better balance of material in them, for one thing. Here’s the blurb and contents list for Spooked: ‘I’ve never been [...] The second book (technically it’s number 2, but it was published at the same time as Sex and the Cynics) is on one of the hottest issues in our culture: how do we relate to people with different worldviews and moralities? What does tolerance really mean? Here’s the blurb and contents list: ‘Why can’t you be more [...] The Salvation Army published a very positive review which you can read on their website. Here’s the blurb and contents of the first book in the Talking About series. Love: one of the deepest longings of the human heart, yet increasingly viewed with cynicism. Many people have been hurt too often to believe in love [...] As well as writing or co-writing Dark Matter: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Philip Pullman and Back in Time: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Doctor Who, I have been editing a series of books which goes under the name of the Talking About series. Each of the books takes the basic ingredients of what Nick [...] |
Tony Watkins is a writer and speaker on Christian faith and contemporary culture, with a particular interest in film. He is the Managing Editor of Culturewatch. |
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