Ninety and Nine-The Media Issue
Posted by: David Bunch
Ninety and Nine has an excellent issue this week concerning media, culture, and faith. Specifically, there are several view points on television, movies, and all other things Hollywood that are definitely worth checking out.
The Only Way to Turn Things Around in Hollywood Is to Become More Engaged is a very interesting, behind the scenes interview with Act One's Spencer Lewerenz.
I have long contended that Christians can no longer rail against any one form of media, because media is now unavoidable-it's influence is everywhere and it is overlapping. We are exposed to all kinds of messages via the internet, movies, magazines, and the like.
So how to integrate this and hold fast to our core Christian values? Says Lewerenz:
I find it refreshing that there are those people like Lewerenz who have found a way to balance their creative dreams with their faith, and also are making a positive impact for good in an industry that is so often known for bad.
Ninety and Nine has an excellent issue this week concerning media, culture, and faith. Specifically, there are several view points on television, movies, and all other things Hollywood that are definitely worth checking out.
The Only Way to Turn Things Around in Hollywood Is to Become More Engaged is a very interesting, behind the scenes interview with Act One's Spencer Lewerenz.
I have long contended that Christians can no longer rail against any one form of media, because media is now unavoidable-it's influence is everywhere and it is overlapping. We are exposed to all kinds of messages via the internet, movies, magazines, and the like.
So how to integrate this and hold fast to our core Christian values? Says Lewerenz:
Everyone in the family now has a computer, a TV, a cell phone, an iPod... The media has become ubiquitous and unavoidable. And we Christians find our way of seeing the world, our ideas and morals, massively underrepresented. Often, the ideas and morals presented there are antithetical, even antagonistic, to our own.
But this way of seeing the world, so opposite to our own, will continue to permeate every facet of our lives through the media. And the sad thing is that we have helped to create this reality, and we will continue to do so unless we educate ourselves about Hollywood and change our approach accordingly. That’s why Behind the Screen exists, to help Christians take a more effective course of action and better live our faith in the process.
I find it refreshing that there are those people like Lewerenz who have found a way to balance their creative dreams with their faith, and also are making a positive impact for good in an industry that is so often known for bad.
I know people who have come here to be actors or writers, ended up in a completely different side of the industry, and then found that they’re having the most amazing impact just by living their faith while working in accounting or distribution. You never know what God has planned.
