It was great to hear what George Critchley is planning once he leaves us at the end of his time at uni.
He told the church on Sunday that he is going to work as an intern for a Christian charity called Damaris that produces teaching resources to schools and churches.
Their vision is to create people that are both biblically informed, and culturally informed, with the ability to relate the two. With this in mind, they do a thing called ‘CultureWatch’ which looks through secular films for an underlying message that asks questions about life, as well as seeing what answers the Bible and a life with God provide.
This interests us as our church likes to be aware of contemporary culture, having an occasional “culture watch” small group, discussing books and films.
George will be involved in shooting, directing, and editing the short films that do this kind of work. See the short he made while he was down there
See another example of their approach here.
Damaris be working on an account for Disney, producing resources about the Narnia film, Prince Caspian.
George’s internship is unpaid, though they will provide money to cover bed and board for the three/four months he is working there. Our church leadership has decided to make a small contribution from our mission fund.
We were recorded for BBC Radio York on the Wednesday evening. Church members come together specially and the musicians did a great job.
However, the day afterwards it became apparent that the sound quality was not good enough. So on Sunday 4th May we were recorded during our main Sunday morning meeting. It was broadcast on Julia Booth’s programme yesterday.
You can hear it by going to Julia’s programme and we are on about three minutes after the start of the show.
This link should get you there.
A big “Thank you” to all who helped.
When you look at Alister’s McGrath’s performance here, the phrase “doesn’t give an inch” comes to mind. This interview, that was filmed for the documentary “The Root Of All Evil” starring Richard Dawkins, didn’t make the final cut. I wonder why? Perhaps for the same reason Alister’s books are not mentioned in the God Delusion.
See this very British, very civilised and very frank exchange of opinions here. It’s thrilling stuff!
Luc pastors an Elim church near Lake Geneva, in France. The recording volume is a bit low for the first minute or so but the volume does go up so you can hear this inspiring sermon on the theme of “passion”.
Graham and his family were recently elfed, click here to see the results.
You can listen again to Graham reviewing the papers at the BBC Radio York website. In order to listen again you need to go to the BBC Radio York website and click “listen again” anywhere you see it. Then when the listen again player pops up you can scroll through the different radio shows within the pop up. Graham was on “Julia Booth’s Sunday Breakfast” from 9am so you might have to skip forward a bit, the listen again player allows you to do that.
This week we had a guest speaker, Alan Hobson, from an organisation that supports persecuted churches around the world, CWS (Christian Solidarity Worldwide).
Alan Hobson from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CWS) [38:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (81)Our very own pastor was raised a Mormon and can verify that the information in this animation is an accurate portrayal of Mormon beliefs, although some of it is kept secret from their members until they reach a certain level of Mormonism.
