I’m currently recovering from VBS, which was back-to-back with my trip to Philly for Realm Makers! I will blog about RM next week, Lord willing, and I have plans to shift to a new style of Simmer Starters…one where I add more of my own personal thoughts on the links I choose to share. Please comment and let me know if that’s something that would interest you more! 🙂
For now, I’m simply sharing the links I’ve gathered recently, as always. Do check these out, because they are all wonderful!
Storytelling with Faith and Free Will (R.J. Anderson and Stephen McCranie) – I enjoyed this dialogue about faith and storytelling. There’s a lot of good stuff to glean here.
5 Reasons Writing Is Important to the World (K.M. Weiland) – “Let’s face it, people, the world’s a mess right now. I think the vast majority of us agree on that, to one degree or another, regardless our worldview. And what are we doing about it? What can we do about it?… We’re just folks who put words on paper. We’re just people spinning little tales that make us happy or fulfill our own fantasies: romance and superheroes, dragons and femme fatales. We’re just writers. That doesn’t seem like much right now. It certainly doesn’t seem like enough.”
Harry Potter, Jesus, and Me (Andrew Peterson) – ALL OF THIS. “I couldn’t get Harry’s story out of my head. I doubled over in the back of the auditorium and sobbed with gratitude to Jesus for allowing his body to be ruined, for facing the enemy alone, for laying down his life for his friends–Jesus, my friend, brother, hero, and king–Jesus, the Lord of Life, who triumphed o’er the grave–who lives that death may die! Even now, writing those words, my heart catches in my throat. In that moment I was able, because of these books, to worship Christ in a way I never had.”
Why Christians Should Paint, Dance, Quilt, Act, Compose Music, Write Stories, Decorate Cookies, and Participate in the Arts (Mark Altrogge) – I LOVE this post so much. And the title of it reminds me of that quote from Joss Whedon: “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
He feels like that over Harry Potter. I felt like that over Madoka. 😛
Yes, give us more of your opinions!
Wow, truly? I’d love to hear more about how Madoka made you feel that way! 🙂 I guess I didn’t experience Madoka in as spiritual a way as I experienced HP or some other books and movies.
Madoka is a Christ figure who sacrificed her own life and took away the witches (sin) and despair past, present, and future, becoming a saving concept (Jesus IS a person, but salvation is the concept and He exists in past, present, and future by His one act in the middle of time). 🙂
Ahhh, yes! So true!