What would Jesus watch?
Fox is planning on targeting the “christian” audience with new movies under it’s new “FoxFaith” division, hoping to attract the evangelical world to increase their profits. I think that there can be two opinions on this. First, that this is a good thing that means increased safe viewing material with positive values. The second, and the one I believe, is that this is just disgusting… welcome the moneychangers into the temple (remember, our bodies are the temple!) There is this crazy mindset in Christians that seems to think that as long as it looks okay, it must be okay. Whether this is in the performing, visual, recording, literary, or any other art “christians” flock to it, this pale substitute. Wake-up-call, Jesus was more concerned with the inside of things than the outside… even if these movies look “christian” they have a rotten core. The more we encourage large media the more this tendancy will be exploited. I do not advocate removing ourselves from this world and these things, rather I propose that something new is happening.
I see inklings, like the sky before dawn, of an emerging Christian awareness to create media and that goes beyond the bizarre ‘evangelizing’ films produced in the later 20th century to an artistic Christian community that revels in the glory of God – in a way that neither conjures the image of moneychangers nor of washing the outside and leaving insides dirty. I pray that these are not my delusions, but rather a hopeful vision grounded in the reality of a resurging Christianity.