The other day on Facebook, a friend of mine who is a Christian speaker asked for recommendations for romantic movies, but only ones which didn’t have lots of inappropriate material. Now, I understand that the term “inappropriate material” means different things to different people, but I was quite amazed at some of the recommendations he received. Anyway, I decided to start compiling my own list of movies and I would love your help!
Pride & Prejudice
Sense & Sensibility
Persuasion
Emma
Hitch
Ever After
Kate & Leopold
You’ve got mail
Sleepless in Seattle
The Princess Bride
Martha, mett Frank, Daniel and Laurence
50 First Dates
Music & Lyrics
IQ
The Family Man
Return to me
What did I miss? Do you have any other recommendations?
A little while ago I was commenting on a friend’s blog where we were discussing the practice of church attendance on Sundays. Given that a lot of Protestants comment on his blog, I posed the following question to all those commenting:
What actually is the Protestant motivation for going to church on Sunday?
Now, this might seem like a silly question, but I asked it due to a certain train of thought that I had noticed during my time in the Protestant world. It’s a train of thought that I feel leads to unavoidable, awkward conclusions…
01:00 – Matt’s Introduction 02:47 – Drink and quote of the week 06:57 – Overview of “Becoming Mrs. Lewis” 10:37 – Joy, the false self and “Till We Have Faces” 19:39 – Lewis’ own journey 21:44 – Lewis, personal faults and Mrs. Moore 27:05 – What has happened since your last appearance here? 30:46 – How did this new podcast come about? 33:11 – Who will you be interviewing? 37:41 – Joy’s poetry 41:07 – What did you learn in the process of putting together the podcast? 43:40 – Will there be a movie of the book? 48:43 – How has this project transformed you? 49:56 – Patti’s talks at an upcoming retreat 54:16 – What else is on the horizon for you?
Today we get stuck into the chapters of Till We Have Faces! In the first two chapters of the book, Lewis sets the scene for his story in the fictional city of Glome.
The last couple of chapters have covered new and interesting material, focussing on the Biblical characters such Moses and the Blessed Mother. Today, however, we return to the Qur’an’s sweet spot: judgment, Heaven and Hell.
Surah 56 – “The inevitable” (Al-Waqia) A portrait of the Resurrection is painted, a day when “the earth is shaken” and “mountains are broken down”. We are told that mankind will become “[of] three types”:
The Companions of the right who go to Paradise
The Companions of the left who go to the Fire
The Forerunners who go to Paradise
I’m not exactly sure what makes “The Forerunners” distinct from “The Companions of the right”.
I know I said I wouldn’t be posting during Lent, but this weekend I gave a talk, “Evangelization for the terrified”, at the San Pedro Calungsod Young Adult Retreat in San Diego and promised that I’d upload the audio the following week, together with links to the resources I mentioned in my talk.
The Talk
Evangelization For The Terrified – Extended Edition (Download)
Unfortunately, the original recording has the last ten minutes cut off… 🙁 Fortunately, I just re-recorded the entire talk here at home. Since I didn’t have the time restrictions I had on the retreat, this recording is a little longer. Think of it as the Director’s Cut or the Extended Edition, which includes ten minutes of never-before-heard material!
One of the first things which struck me about the Qur’an the first time I read it was how it can suddenly and jarringly jump to a completely different scene, and even change who is speaking. For example, the following verse is clearly Allah speaking…
That is Paradise, which We will grant to whoever is devout among Our servants – Quran 19.63
…and then suddenly and without warning we now shift to the angels speaking as a group…
We only descend by the command of your Lord. To Him belongs whatever is before us, and whatever is behind us, and everything in between. And your Lord is never forgetful… – Quran 19.64
I began my talk by referencing the Papal Encyclical