Movie
It’s called Rapture-Palooza. This is exactly what it sounds like. Since the Scofield Bible came out in 1909 supporting John Darby’s understanding of a pre-millennial rapture, the western world has been obsessed with end-times theology. Countless books and films have been written about this view of the saints being ushered up into the heavens. One need look no further than the Left Behind series and its popularity to see its newly found prominence in our society. So it was only a matter of time before someone made a hard-hitting comedy about it. Enter Rapture-Palooza: a raunchy R-rated film about a couple of young people surrounded by talking locusts, running through the rain and blood-soaked post-apocalypse world trying to find and kill the Antichrist. Now I haven’t seen it. And the consensus is, it’s terrible. But then again, I might just be that rare person this movie had as its target audience.
Or maybe not.
Church Freak Out: A Sermon Gone Bad
It is, of course, always dangerous to let oneself be recorded. You can scarcely get through the week without hearing about the latest celebrity misconduct caught on tape for all the world to see. Are celebrities today that much worse then they were 50 years ago or are they just more easily caught these days? I’m inclined to say, “no one is perfect” and feel thankful I’m not being recorded in my worst of times. But with that said, if you are the minister of a church and you know you are being recorded, well, try your hardest to not be too mean to your congregation. Unfortunately for him, Pastor Jim Standridge didn’t have the luxury of heeding my advice. I came too late. Instead he stood in the pulpit of Immanuel Baptist Church of Skiatook, Oklahoma, and had a little break down where he gave the congregation a good what-for.
Star Wars Church
This is just a little fun for all you self-proclaimed nerds out there. Which, by the way, is now cool. See, being nerdy is now ironic and hipster-like and because it’s precisely the not caring that makes them cool, well, that’s why they go to all that trouble to not care … wait … oh, who cares. Anyway, embrace your inner nerd and check out this short clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2i764rMDfM
About bradleychilds
Rev. Bradley Childs is minister at First, Regina.
