At the risk of being seen as a shameless self-promoter, I would suggest that my own book, Focus: The Art and Soul of Cinema, is a key read for any Christian who wants to think about film and worldviews.
Some other books I recommend highly (in alphabetical order, by author, not in terms of merit):
Peter Fraser and Vernon Edwin Neal, ReViewing the Movies: A Christian Response to Contemporary Film (Focal Point) (Crossway, 2000).
Brian Godawa, Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom & Discernment second edition (IVP, 2009)
Jeffrey Overstreet, Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies (Regal, 2007)
Nick Pollard, Evangelism Made Slightly Less Difficult: With Study Guide (IVP, 1997)
William D. Romanowski, Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture, second edition (Brazos Press, 2007)
James W Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalogue (InterVarsity, 2004)
I will update this page with further recommendations and some comments when I get [...]
This is very weird. On yesterday’s Blue Peter (available on BBC iPlayer until 9 June 2009), the team were making a film in 24 hours for this year’s ‘Me and my movie’. They had Anthony Head, of Buffy and Arthur fame, involved. At one point (8 min 20 sec in) he’s shown looking for inspiration in Idea magazine, from Evangelical Alliance. And there’s a very brief shot of him looking at my article on [...]
I wasn’t able to see The Narnia Code on BBC One yesterday, but I watched and enjoyed it this evening. Directed by Norman Stone, it profiles the discovery of Michael Ward who, while working on his PhD on Lewis, stumbled onto a secret no one had ever seen before. He was reading Lewis’s poem about [...]
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 [...]
As well as reviewing Dark Matter, Publishers Weekly also conducted a short email interview with me which was published in Religion BookLine. Here’s an extract:
. . . rather than a screed against Pullman’s books—which portray the Church as a corrupt corporation and God as a sick old man whose place has been taken by an [...]
My Review of Dark Matter: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Philip Pullman has now been published in the USA by IVP. Publishers Weekly, a major trade publication for the book world, has published a favourable review:
‘Philip Pullman’s acclaimed His Dark Materials trilogy, a sweeping retelling of Milton’s Paradise Lost and The Fall , has caused [...]
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 [...]
