Last week I wrote about The Oscars and Lent. I wrote that these two phenomena share more in common than is usually suggested. Today I want to move in for a closer look--at the stories themselves. If this annual cultural ritual in honor of story (The Oscars) is so telling of our culture's condition, and if we, as critically thinking Christians, want to understand and thus impact our culture, it may do us some good to examine its favorite stories. The Life of Pi is one such story. With four Academy Awards, The Life … [Read more...] about Story, Lent and The Life of Pi
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A Christian Reflection on The Oscars and Lent
On Sunday night more than 1,000,000,000 people participated in the cultural festival that is the 85th Oscar Awards Ceremony. I can't even begin to imagine the impact that Hollywood has on our culture's development, and if there's an opportune time to catch a glimpse of the dialectical conversation between the influence of the big screen and the values of our current culture, Sunday night's celebration was it. The first thing out of the mouth of the spokesman for the winning visual effects team of Life of Pi was … [Read more...] about A Christian Reflection on The Oscars and Lent