Well, I finally spent a buck (we have a redbox® movie kiosk at our local supermarket) and viewed The Golden Compass. Talk about a confusing and disappointing movie. It was very disjointed, with a lot of things mentioned but never explained. Unlike other recent movies based on a trilogy which at least made sense even within themselves, this movie lacked any sense. And if it is indeed based on the book, then it ripped off Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, the Star Wars saga, and even Harry Potter! I kept thinking: “I’ve already seen this movie.” Given the falderal about the atheistic worldview of the trilogy that preceded the movie’s release, The Golden Compass disappoints even as a movie.
On another note: after completing wallowing through Shopping for God, I decided to try something from the other end of the spectrum. So this last weekend I tackled and finished John MacArthur’s The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in ah Age of Deception.” Yep, that’s a mouthful.
MacArthur, who occasionally goes off on “witch hunts,” does an admirable job summarizing the development of postmodern society (there are tons of books which delve into this subject). He also provides some rather damning evidence that the Emergent Church Movement (think Brian McLaren, Rob Bell, Dan Kimbell, etc.) may have bought too much into the post-modern thought, which has its roots in several heresies that have been around since the first century church. MacArthur casts the entire movement in the same light, but only offers quotes from McLaren’s writing. These are scary enough, if they are accurate and in context. MacArthur even suggests that Rob Bell and his wife started Mars Hill in reaction to the too-dogmatic, too-certain teachings of their church. But there’s no documentation to back this up.
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