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“At this point in history, American evangelicals resemble the Israelites at various dangerous moments in the Old Testament: They are blending into the surrounding heathen culture, and having ever more trouble figuring out where it ends and they begin.”

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Some perceptive observations from Hanna Rosin’s review of Daniel Radosh’s Rapture Ready! in Slate:
When you make loving Christ sound just like loving your boyfriend, you can do damage to both your faith and your ballad. That’s true when you create a sanitized version of bands like Nirvana or artists like Jay-Z, too: You shoehorn a [...]

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Evangelicals Turn Toward … The Orthodox Church?

Friday, August 31, 2007

A very interesting article in The New Republic:
From a spiritual perspective, however, (Wilbur) Ellsworth was suffering. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of evangelical churches have joined what is called the “church growth movement,” which favors a more contemporary, market-driven style of worship–with rock ‘n’ roll “praise songs” supplanting traditional hymns and dramatic [...]

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“Despite the bomb that was Evan Almighty, millions of devout Americans are still waiting to be invited into a theater to see a film that is entertaining, affirms their values and doesn’t trivialize their deeply held religious beliefs.”

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Mark Joseph at Fox News- ” With Evan Almighty, Hollywood Strikes Out Again in Effort to Appeal to Faith-Based Audience”
HT: Justin Taylor
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Desiring God Offers All Books at $5 Apiece Today and Tomorrow

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

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“Spiritainment” That “Please(s) God”

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

The Boston Globe- “Faith-based fare may get made-in-Mass. tag”:
Hollywood executive David Kirkpatrick has a vision: To make Massachusetts, the home of the Puritans that grew up to be the bluest of the blue states, into a hotbed of faith-based multimedia entertainment production.
Kirkpatrick, a former president of Paramount Pictures and a cofounder of the year-old Good [...]

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