From Newsweek: Why TV is better than movies.
This is a position I've advocated for about a year, but when I decided to take the quiz they offer on the website, I was suddenly forced to choose between Little Miss Sunshine and The Office, and then between The Departed and The Sopranos. Hmm. Such choices confuse my firmly held opinions. On the other hand, perhaps they prove how TV has "caught up" with the Silver Screen and is now at least on equal footing. At any rate, one glance at our Netflix queue proves where our preferences lie (even our most recent entertainment, Bleak House, was a BBC TV series).
On a more serious note, an article from Time about the abortion debate in Asheville.
Starting on page 7, the writer interviews Jeff Hutchinson, pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Asheville, where several of my relatives attend. I've talked to Jeff many times and was thrilled to read his satisfying comments in this article. It is refreshing to see reasonable, even-handed, caring Christians get national publicity on this issue, instead of so-called Culture-War Christians, of whom Jeff makes the comment: "'Culture-War Christians... have no interest in finding common ground. Their constituencies don't like it; they won't send in any more money.' But that doesn't mean the conversation about all these issues of mind and heart and body are fated to be reduced to a fund-raising tool or political weapon. 'The good news is that the Culture-War Christian can actually change because God is alive and can change the heart...I know it. Because I was a Culture-War Christian once myself.'" (Also, it's totally cool that the Asheville CPC and Planned Parenthood meet at the Blue Moon Bakery to discuss these issues.)
