For youth group this week we are going to spend some more time reviewing different media (songs, movies, tv shows, books, newspaper articles, etc.) in our culture to determine their worldview and truth implications. For example, last week we looked at the teaser to the Superman Returns movie and how it has the theme of a savior for the world by the only son (Superman) of a father from another world. We saw how this was theistic and what that means.
Your homework assignment is to come up with some ideas of some songs, movies, etc. and post them on this blog. Please post your idea to the blog so that everyone else knows not to choose that same piece. If you have a clip please bring it with you to youth group. Please limit your selections to less than 5 minutes and avoid any material that has explicit content.
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Crystal has already given me the idea of the movie Lady in the Water.
Thanks to Monika and Stephanie for the worldview examples of worldviews affect real people.
Well, I see I've missed a lot. A movie that immediately popped into my head was one of my favorites, "The Last Samurai". It has great themes of Transcendentalism. It talks about the destiny of everyone and the mistic peace found in nature. I might bring a clip if I can find one.
My ideas are mostly poetry. I might bring W.E. Henley's "Invictus", a very godless poem, and contrast it with C. S. Lewis' "Donkey's Delight", which celebrates humility,and/or George Herbert's "The Collar",about how God can subdue our rebelion. Or I might take Thomas Hardy's naturalistic, bitter "Neutral Tones", and put it beside G. M. Hopkin's "God's Grandeur" and/or something by G. K. Chesterton, who saw God's mystery and glory in everything. It depends whether I can get to the library or not, but I'll try to bring one group. All these are pretty short. Looking forward to seeing what everyone else finds.
I have decided to bring Thomas Hardy's "Hap" and William Blake's On Another's Sorrow, for a look at the meaning of suffering from a Naturalist and Christian Theist perspective, respectively. I have both right here at home and they're easy to grasp, but I will bring two of the others if you want something more famous, Jason. I'm excited about tomorrow night.
I've decided to not bring the video, many other people might bring somthing so I decided not to.
Im going to bring the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and show a clip about the ultimate answer, and its about three minutes long (some of you might not get it).
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