Can anyone answer this query? -
The comment in the URC diary for next Sunday is 'Not for sale Sunday'. Is this in support of a campaign for opposing Human trafficking; or is it in support of the Lord's Day Observance society? Other URC members have been equally uncertain!
Alan Dunstone
Wednesday 13 May 2009
Monday 11 May 2009
A film worth seeing: starring Michael Caine
‘Is there anybody there?’
This is a great weepy film but not especially girlie, that explores beliefs about life after death, aging and dementia through the eyes of a child. He becomes obsessed with death after he moves into a older peoples home that his parents take over and is befriended by an ex magician with dementia.
Christianity does not do well. The vicar for one of the funerals is wet and inconsequential in the face of the eccentricities of the older people in the home. But reincarnation and ghosts are up there in the charts. The film raises lots of questions about beliefs about death and the after life in our eclectic post modern culture.
Why is the Christian voice portrayed as irrelevant or invisible not only in this film but much popular media today?
‘Is there anybody there?’
This is a great weepy film but not especially girlie, that explores beliefs about life after death, aging and dementia through the eyes of a child. He becomes obsessed with death after he moves into a older peoples home that his parents take over and is befriended by an ex magician with dementia.
Christianity does not do well. The vicar for one of the funerals is wet and inconsequential in the face of the eccentricities of the older people in the home. But reincarnation and ghosts are up there in the charts. The film raises lots of questions about beliefs about death and the after life in our eclectic post modern culture.
Why is the Christian voice portrayed as irrelevant or invisible not only in this film but much popular media today?
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