Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Religion and Media
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The watching one or more Jesus films at Easter is a common activity for Christians individually or as communities. These might be documentaries or one of the many versions of cinematic Jesus that have cropped up over the years. (For some examples, see my list here at Jesus films – updating media). But while these…
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The final part of this series wraps a up a few additional entries. There may be others and if I come across them later I’ll add them to this post. A mix of denominations this time including a number of shows I only vaguely know about. See previous posts: Storying Pastors, Priests and Ministers…
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In this third instalment of Storying Pastors, Priests and Ministers we go a little new school and a little old school looking back at TV shows with priests and pastors as central characters. There are more than a few with recurring ‘sleuthing priest’. (For those of you catching up here are the first two parts: Storying…
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The Storying Pastors, Priests and Ministers post generated a flurry other suggestions on Facebook, so here’s the next set of the TV shows that connect with ministry life in one way or another. I have to say, though, that these entries concentrate on the frailty and fallibility of human beings without too many positive examples of…
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Inspired by a friend’s binge-watching of The Vicar of Dibley I thought I’d compile a list of fictional TV programmes that are centred around the central character being a priest, minister, chaplain or pastor. Obviously, ministers are recurring characters in different shows, e.g. Father Mulcahy in MAS*H, but what about those series that are specifically…
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If you’ve followed the DC animated movie scene over that past thirteen years or so, you’ll know that alongside the main features released primarily on DVD and Bluray there are sometimes additional short films released alongside those features. These are typically branded as part of the DC Showcase series (referring back to this anthology series…
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Over that last few days in the evenings I’ve caught up on a couple of comic narratives that play with thems of religion, power, and empire. I finally got around to reading Jonathan Hickman’s Pax Romana which involves the Roman Catholic Church, time-travel, and attempting to rewrite history for a “better future”, as well as…
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I’m currently thinking about Batman in dialogue with Christian theology, but over the weekend I had the opportunity to read the 2015 re-rebooted Omega Men series from DC featuring the then White Lantern, Kyle Rayner. I’m most familiar with the Omega Men connected to the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, in the 1980s but…
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The last few months in New Zealand have, in my opinion, seen an increase in the number of articles published in the media concerning religion. In part, that’s a response to the tragedy of March 15 in Christchurch, where media found they were underequipped to deal deeply with religion in the NZ context, as well…
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It’s been a while since the Top 10 religion and comics installments, and I’ve been meaning to post a number of other comics that didn’t make it into that list but are still worth mentioning in passing. No commentary on these apart from the official blurbs. As always, YMMV reading these.