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Earlier this year, I posted a video about Richard Dawkins’s refusal to debate with Christian philospher William Lane Craig during Craig’s Reasonable Faith tour this autumn. Dawkins is a vice-president of the British Humanist Association, which allegedly encourages debate. I say ‘allegedly’ because another vice-president of the BHA, A.C. Grayling, has also refused to [...]  I recently came across this video of the amazing Danny Macaskill on his BMX in an industrial wasteland in Scotland. It’s simply breathtaking. window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “116321465122351″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol + “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js”; document.getElementById(“fb-root”).appendChild(e); }()); It’s taken me a while to get round to it, what with holidays and teaching in Norway, but I’ve now produced pdf and epub versions of my recent series of posts on films and worldviews. window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “116321465122351″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; A little while ago I was filmed for version 2 of Glad You Asked, a DVD-based series of 8 sessions exploring the big questions of life, produced by the excellent Innovista. The first version was excellent, so I was delighted to be involved in version 2. It will be on sale very soon, but [...] This is the article on the book of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which I wrote for Culturewatch. Warning: contains major plot spoilers. Daniel Radcliffe as Harry in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2”, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Copyright: © 2011 Warner Bros. [...] Tony Watkins has sent you a link to a blog: Brian Auten of Apologetics 315 recently interviewed me for his blog of apologetics resources. Blog: Apologetics 315 Post: Interview: Tony Watkins of CultureWatch Link: http://apologetics315.blogspot.com/2011/07/interview-tony-watkins-of-culturew…Posted via email from Tony Watkins window.fbAsyncInit = function() { [...] Read the rest of this series. Why use film in Christian communication? Although aspects of the Christian worldview still do hang on in western culture, it’s all too obvious that very few films communicate much of it clearly. As I have already noted, films are primarily about telling a story, and often the worldview [...] Worldview dimensions, continued Morality Image from iStockphoto.com Some of the issues which I raised in the previous post, in relation to human nature are profoundly moral questions. What does it mean when we say that darkness and evil reside in the human heart, and that genuine goodness can be found there too? What [...] Worldview dimensions, continued Humanity A human head, divided according to Gall and Spurzheim's system of phrenology. Coloured lithograph by C. Ingrey, 1824. Image courtesy Mary Margret, used under a Creative Commons licence The second key aspect of worldviews is the nature of human beings. What does it mean to be human? This is [...] In the third part of this series on using films in Christian communication, we start looking at the five key dimensions of worldviews. Worldview dimensions There are five key dimensions of any worldview map to which we we need to pay very careful attention. They may seem a little abstract or theoretical at first. [...] In the first post in this series, I reflected on life in the mediasphere, and the influence which films can have on us. In this post, we begin to get into the subject of worldviews. Film and worldviews Photo by Andrew Bossi, Flickr; used under a Creative Commons licence www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/4273347964/ While films tell [...] Life in the mediasphere Sean Penn’s wonderful film Into the Wild (2007) tells the true story of a young man who abandons normal middle class life, gives everything away and hitch-hikes to Alaska where he plans to live in the wilderness. He wants to be surrounded by a beautiful landscape, not a cityscape. Most [...] |
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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