A La Carte (11/20)

  • Tim Challies
  • 11/20/07
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Tuesday November 20, 2007Phillip Pullman’s “The Golden Compass”
Several people have expressed concern to me about the upcoming film “The Golden Compass.” A couple of years ago IV Press published a book that may be of interest: “Dark Matter: Shedding Light on Philip Pullman’s Trilogy, His Dark Materials.”
Reformed Baptist Academic Press
Reformed Baptist Academic Press has just launched a new web site and is introducing two new books.
How to Mark a Book
“Thoughts on the Way” has just published Mortimer J. Adler’s helpful article on how to mark a book. A golden quote: “I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.”

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a comment from Ricardo Marquez • 11/20 @ 12:32pm

An essential listen/rebuttal of Pullman’s work is featured on the latest edition of AUDITION, Mars Hill Audio Journal’s free podcast. Host Ken Myers interviews Prof. Alan Jacobs, Professor of English at Wheaton College. Free MP3 download:

http://www.mhadigital.org/index.php?post_id=274993

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a comment from Chris Roberts • 11/20 @ 1:33pm
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Tom at Thinking Christian - http://www.thinkingchristian.net/index.html - has been doing quite a bit of posting about the movie. It’s been informative. It’s also been surprising. Note particularly his posts about the curriculum company Scholastica promoting this movie and the related books in some of their recommended curriculum.

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a comment from Zach Nielsen • 11/20 @ 2:10pm
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I posted on this a few days back. If you want to you can check it out here:

http://takeyourvitaminz.blogspot.com/2007/11/quick-hide-women-and-children-golden.html

In essence this is what I said:

Am I worried about this new book infiltrating the brains of my three little ones?

Not really.

Here is what I am more concerned with:

1. I am more concerned with the subtle, soul crushing attacks of materialism in our culture that leads my kids at the ages of 5 and 3 to already tell me almost daily what possessions they want to acquire.

2. I am more concerned with the ease and comfort that we live in that may anesthetize them to a need for the gospel.

3. I am more concerned with the reality that they are daily exposed to a Dad that loves them desperately yet regularly falls short of perfection. I pray they will learn to look to Jesus when I fail them.

They might see this movie once and forget it but these are the things my kids are exposed to daily! This movie will come and go just like The DaVinci Code and The Last Temptation of Christ did but the cultural air they breathe is not going away anytime soon. I would be more concerned about this than The Golden Compass. Don’t get too worked up about this one people. We have bigger fish to fry spiritually speaking.

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a comment from Zach Nielsen • 11/20 @ 2:11pm
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Check out this one as well:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/lyris/movies/archives/11-09-2007.html

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a comment from Tim Ashcraft • 11/20 @ 6:00pm
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I agree with Zach about our reaction to this movie. While we should always be ready to give an answer for the hope within us, we need not become anxious over this movie’s effects. It might provide opportunities to witness to people who have questions.

Concerning the Reformed Baptist Academic Press website, it doesn’t seem to work with Firefox. The page will display, but there are no hyperlinks. To get full functionality it looks like we’ll have to use IE for now.