Apostolic Wife Swap: Continued Media Attention
Posted by: kdc
So I was reading my latest issue of The Atlantic Monthly - a must-source for what's going on in the world - & got to the latest column on media, written by VH1's president. It's entitled "The Case for Reality TV" & makes the argument that reality TV merges the best of documentaries and drama, without the traditional biases and restrictions of either. And look who scored a paragraph in the midst of a larger article but our own Apostolic Hoover family!
And they pulled the perfect quote you'd like thousands to read:
So I was reading my latest issue of The Atlantic Monthly - a must-source for what's going on in the world - & got to the latest column on media, written by VH1's president. It's entitled "The Case for Reality TV" & makes the argument that reality TV merges the best of documentaries and drama, without the traditional biases and restrictions of either. And look who scored a paragraph in the midst of a larger article but our own Apostolic Hoover family!And they pulled the perfect quote you'd like thousands to read:
"Value systems are smashed into each other, like atoms in an accelerator, on ABC’s Wife Swap, where the producers find the most extreme pairings possible: lesbian mommies with bigots, godless cosmopolites with Bible thumpers. On one February show, a Pentacostal family, the Hoovers, was paired with the family of a former pastor, Tony Meeks, who has turned from God to follow his rock-and-roll dreams (mom Tish rocks out as well).
“I feel by being there,” Kristin Hoover said, “I was able to remind Tony that God still loves him and is not finished with him.” The episode took seriously the Hoovers ’ commitment to homeschooling and their rejection of contemporary culture (a rejection not taken to the extreme of declining an invitation to appear on reality TV). Compare this with the tokenism of “born-again Christian” Harriet Hayes on NBC’s dramedy Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Harriet’s but a cipher, a rhetorical backboard against which ex-boyfriend Matt Albie can thwack his heathen wisecracks."
You just never know how your efforts ripple out when you try to do something for Jesus with pure motives!
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“I feel by being there,” Kristin Hoover said, “I was able to remind Tony that God still loves him and is not finished with him.” The episode took seriously the Hoovers ’ commitment to homeschooling and their rejection of contemporary culture (a rejection not taken to the extreme of declining an invitation to appear on reality TV). Compare this with the tokenism of “born-again Christian” Harriet Hayes on NBC’s dramedy Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Harriet’s but a cipher, a rhetorical backboard against which ex-boyfriend Matt Albie can thwack his heathen wisecracks."
You just never know how your efforts ripple out when you try to do something for Jesus with pure motives!
(NOTE: You might need a subscription to access the full article.)
