Getting Da Vinci-ed out!

Are Fairy Tales Finished?

An interesting piece by Mike Cosper on The Gospel Coalition Blog about Walt Disney’s announcement that it will not make any more princess fairy tales, at least for the foreseeable future. I was particularly struck by this observation:

I can’t help but wonder, though, if the cognitive disconnect between today’s families and the [...]

Seeing through other eyes – C.S. Lewis

I love this quote from C.S. Lewis’s An Experiment in Criticism (1961), which is easily applicable to film as well as literature:

This, so far as I can see, is the specific value or good of literature as Logos; it admits us to experiences other than our own. They are not, any more [...]

Jeffrey Overstreet on the how of storytelling

Encounter 10: Jeffrey Overstreet on the how of storytelling from International Arts Movement on Vimeo.

Jeffrey is a great, insightful Christian film critic whose perspectives I value highly. This lecture was given at the International Arts Movement Encounter 10.

Interview with Corey Olsen, the Tolkien Professor

Colin Duriez, the most knowledgeable person on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien I know, interviews ‘the Tolkien Professor’, Corey Olsen, for Festival in the Shire Journal. Here’s one question which particularly interests me. You can read the rest here, but you’ll need to go to the Festival in the Shire home page to access [...]

A Hunger for Truth and Justice

Stieg Larsson’s Crime novels Interview with Tony Watkins by Christian Bensel, 23 March 2010

The bestselling Millennium Trilogy features cases of mass murderers, human trafficking and government conspiracies. 27 million copies have been [...]

Handling the prophetic literature in the Old Testament

A handout for the second half of the second of five sessions on the prophets in the Old Testament at Bible & Culture 2010.

BC2. Handling the OT prophets View more documents from Tony Watkins. [...]

Philip Pullman and his atheist fiction

Philip Pullman CBE is the acclaimed author of around thirty books, mostly aimed at older children. He is best known for His Dark Materials, a brilliantly written, ambitious trilogy (Northern Lights/The Golden Compass (1995); The Subtle Knife (1997); The Amber Spyglass (2000)). He has received many awards, including the highly prestigious Astrid Lindgren Award.

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Philip Pullman’s next book is a reworking of the story of Jesus. And a denial of the truth of Jesus.

Children’s author Philip Pullman says Jesus wasn’t the Son of God by Tom Kelly

Bestselling children’s author Philip Pullman has provoked more anger from Christians with a new book denying that Jesus was the son of God.

The book, due to be published next Easter, accepts there was a holy man called Jesus but [...]

Scaring kids

Some quotes from Lewis and Tolkien on fairy tales. [...]

And more on The Da Vinci Code

I neglected to inform the world that my recording of a Men’s Breakfast at King’s Community Church, Hedge End (Southampton) is now available. It didn’t seem to be the right context to talk about the sacred feminine and goddess spirituality, so instead I talked about The Da Vinci Code and conspiracy theories. I highlighted [...]

The Da Vinci Code – more audio

I’ve now added the recordings of Wednesday evening’s events at Above Bar Church, Southampton, which I shared with David Couchman of Focus.

I talked about the appeal of The Da Vinci Code, its opposition to orthodox historical Christianity, the sacred feminine and goddess spirituality.

David addressed three key claims in the book: that the [...]