By Tony Watkins. How can films be used in christian communication? Check out: Using Films in Christian Communication. Follow Tony on Twitter Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
By Bjørn-Are Davidsen Just like music and movies, comics is a broad genre of styles and forms. Some prefer humoristic strips (like Dilbert, Spitz, Calvin & Hobbes etc.), some enjoy superhero magazines (from Marvel, DC and others), others enjoy adventure series (about everyone from Corto Maltese to Uncle Scrooge) and others enjoy Graphic Novels (by Jeff Smith, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and others). 1. What kind of comics stories do you prefer? Why? Do you read other kinds? 2. In … Continue reading
By Lars Dahle In his ground-breaking essay Art & the Bible (1973), influental 20th century evangelical author Francis A. Schaeffer (1913-1984) proposedfour key criteria for enjoying and evaluating art and media messages. This is still a highly relevant and signficant resource for practicing appropriate media awareness and media critique – even in today’s “postmodern” media world. Schaeffer’s four criteria are technical excellence (how well the elements of a specific medium are employed), validity (“whether an artist is honest to himself and his world view or … Continue reading
Mark Meynell (All Souls Langham Place, UK) Popular history books are big business. Which means that lots of people must be reading them. Which means they are definitely worth approaching with considerably more care and attention than many give them… 15 Questions to Ask of Popular History(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
The second part of The Cape Town Commitment (CTC) has now been published, summarizing the thematic content of CT2010 . The first section of part two (CTC IIA), on Bearing witness to the truth of Christ in a pluralistic, globalized world, includes a significant sub-section on the threefold media challenge: 4. Truth and the globalized media We commit ourselves to a renewed critical and creative engagement with media and technology, as part of making the case for the truth … Continue reading
