Jonathan Edwards on pop culture
In the first of Two Dissertations (aka The End for Which God Created the World)*, Jonathan Edwards, arguing that God’s …
Category Archives: Thats Entertainment
John Piper on TV…and Internet
Andy Naselli has compiled several remarks of John Piper on television. For example: “Television is one of the greatest life-wasters …
Don’t do drugs
Don Ohlmeyer: “Ratings are the drug of choice in the media world. The Nielsen numbers are a siren song and …
“Their amusements bore them . . . their devices for saving time have banished leisure from their country.”
In C. S. Lewis’s Pilgrim’s Regress, a character who serves as a Guide tells the characters John and Vertue of …
Christianity and marketing
The marketing culture of American consumerism and American evangelicals are strange bedfellows, but, make no mistake about it, American evangelicalism …
Observations on a growing and influential cult
Since moving out to Central Seminary for graduate and then post-graduate work, I have always had “secular” jobs, jobs outside …
On Comfort and Cameron’s debate tonight
Probably many of you know (much better than I) that Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron are going to be on …
Second in entertainment to the theater
Here’s more Tozer from the sermon I linked yesterday. The sermon is wonderful. There are not many better ways to …
Back to bashing the theater
It has been a while since I made any remarks about the theater, that blessed form now fully accepted by …
Tozer on amusement and entertainment
In his 47th sermon on John, “Let not your heart be troubled,”* Tozer has a few good things to say …
Ron Howard tells it like it is
"This is supposed to be entertainment, it's not theology." No, this is not Rick Warren, Tronn Oilham, the CEO for …
Religious movies and the regulative principle
We are nearly finished now. I have been discussing the presumption that movies (or drama, by inference) should be used …
paleoevangelical: Dever on Entertainment and Church Dramas
paleoevangelical: Dever on Entertainment and Church Dramas This is more of the same. I do enjoy having people like Mark …
Some Neil Postman for a Monday morning
from Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Viking Penguin, 1985), 8-9. “The …
