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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
 Tip of the Movie I joked with some friends the other day that I was refusing to see this movie, the new cinematic hang-up of conservative evangelicals everywhere called "The End of the Spear", just because I was so sick of hearing from other Christians that I should support this movie just because it's "Christian" (what it means for a movie to be "Christian" is, in itself, so contorted and absurd that it deserves its own post in the future sometime). Now I'm serious. The fact that it's "Christian" doesn't warrant going to see it, especially if it's crap. I was joking the other day, and conceded that I might rent it (I can say this with certainty, because Joy and I are pretty fickle about the movies we see in the theater, simply because of the funds involved). But I went to Rotten Tomatoes to see what the reviews were saying, and they aren't good. Overly-sentimental, one-dimensional, bad story-telling, bad acting... all of these comments seemed pretty consistent. Bad film is bad film, even if the story is supposed to be favorable to Christians (and apparently even this is debatable). I suppose I'd like for someone to tell me why I would support bad film-making, whether it's done by Christians or not. And the sad thing is that our cultural myopia allows us to chalk all this up to persecution. "The world just doesn't get it." Ugh.
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Jimmy Doyle is a dad, husband,
teacher, friend, and other things. Currently he's just trying to figure out what it means to follow Christ and be in community with others. He enjoys having conversations with fellow pilgrims on the journey.
Stephen Zedler has a wife and three kids who he loves very much. He has been called by God to study and teach history, particularly U.S.
history. He also believes that God has called him to reform the way children are educated in America.