Previous blog posts have emphasized the urgent need for relevant media awareness resources. This is why Damaris web sites such as the established Culture Watch and the emerging EngagingMedia are so important… It is therefore a joy to announce yet another brilliant Engaging Media-resource by Mark Meynell (of All Soul’s Church, Langham Preaching and Quaerentia): [...]
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Recommended: Key media awareness resources
As someone highly committed to the global need for media awareness and critique resources, it is a real joy for me to see the gradual development of relevant and significant material at Engaging Media. So far, this resource page (still in its soft launch phase!) includes the following key resources: NEWS: Questions to consider when [...]
Media and Technology: Moving Beyond Cape Town 2010
It was both a pleasure and a privilege to deliver the CT2010 multiplex session on “Media and Technology” on Monday the 18th October together with an accomplished global team: The multiplex session illustrated and illuminated the CT2010 advance paper Media Messages Matter: Christ, Truth and the Media… The auditorium was completely packed with more than [...]
Encouraging, enabling and equipping: An attractive London model
theMediaNet.org is a UK network of Christians working in various media fields. This growing network has an attractive vision of encouraging, enabling and equipping Christians in the media world(s). I had the pleasure last evening to be guest speaker at the regional meeting of the MediaNet.org in London. It was a real privilege to share [...]
[Lausanne Global Conversation] Is truth also that which changes and transforms?
The criteria of truth play a key role in my CT2010 advance paper on Media Messages Matter: On Christ, Truth and the Media. Some people have asked me to expand on my use of truth as “that which changes and transforms”. I have just published a comment in the ongoing Lausanne Global Conversation which briefly explains [...]
Worldview approach to textual analysis: Grey’s Anatomy as a case study
“Kevin” asked in a comment to a previous blog post about any writings that illustrate the use of the worldview approach to textual analysis that was outlined in the Budskap 2006 FMH paper [see pp.165-174]. Therefore, I am publishing (with permission!) a helpful article by Ingvild Thu Kro (Damaris Norway) on the popular TV series Grey’s Anatomy: [...]
[Lausanne Global Conversation] Media Messages Matter: Christ, Truth and the Media
As readers of this blog are well aware of, the overall title is Media Messages Matter: Towards Christian Media Presence, Media Awareness and Media Mission. If you want to read more about these key topics, I do recommend my Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper Media Messages Matter: Christ, Truth and the Media. It is very [...]
[Lausanne Global Conversation] Media and technology: Resources for reflection
It is encouraging to see the growing interest and participation in The Lausanne Global Conversation – with the Cape Town 2010 Congress just two months ahead. One of my blog posts is called Media and technology: Resources for reflection, where I recommend key resources for understanding and engaging the complex media field. Today, this blog [...]
Are major news and entertainment media agents of secularization?
The well known British author and newspaper columnist A. N. Wilson once again made the headlines in 2009, when he made a public turn from being a high profile critic to becoming a committed Christian. I just came across the following thought-provoking and quite controversial quote from A. N. Wilson in Ravi Zacharias’ brand new [...]
Media awareness: A forgotten dimension in mission?
My blog post on Media awareness: A forgotten dimension in mission? highlights key missional issues for local churches, youth ministries and mission organizations. Follow the ongoing Lausanne global conversation on media and technology! The discussion on this topic is focussed on the three thematic fields of (1) media awareness and critique, (2) media presence and [...]
Schloss Mittersill – teaching media and engaging Europe
This week my wife and I have had the privilege of teaching media awareness and critique at the Bible & Culture course at the historic and beautiful Schloss Mittersill in Austria. (Read more about the fascinating history of Schloss here.) There are 20 motivated Christian graduates at the Bible & Culture course from all over [...]
Questions to ask when watching movies – and soap operas!
Media awareness and critique involves engaging influential contemporary media messages. This includes not only news media and documentaries but also movies and soap operas. If we are to engage properly with movies and soap operas, we need to ask the right kind of questions. To my knowledge, there is no better guide available than Culture Watch [...]
Why a Christian worldview is uniquely relevant to news
News media play a significant role in the everyday lives for most of us. Therefore we need to actively engage the news by asking key questions. In the blog Twelve questions to consider when watching the news, I suggest the following question as the final one: How do a classical Christian view of humanity and the [...]
Twelve questions to consider when watching the news
We need to actively engage the news. If not, we don’t appreciate the demanding and significant work of the journalists. Nor do we become critically aware of the explicit angles and the underlying perspectives in the news. I propose the following set of criticial questions when watching, reading or listening to global, regional, national and local [...]
Recommended: The Lausanne Global Conversation on Media and Technology
The Lausanne Global Conversation has been launched as a multilingual site for global discussions on key missional topics. This includes media and technology, where I have the privilege to serve as a key contributor. Among the most recent discussions are: Krish Kandiah on Hollywood and the Holy Word: Film and Biblical Echoes - a superb article! Media [...]
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