All this useless beauty!
For the attention of Sydneysiders:
Ever wondered why that blockbuster film made you think long after youd left the cinema?
Seen a film that challenged everything you believe in?
Tried using a film in a sermon illustration and found The Matrix movies just dont work any more?
Then come along and listen to bestselling author Robert Johnston and his wife Cathy Barsotti.
Together they can help you encounter film in a new way, and help you understand the power film has in popular culture and how as Christians we need to be involved in this dialogue.
On August 6 Robert and Cathy will be at the Centre for Ministry to deliver the homily at the weekly Chapel service at 9am and speak at a seminar entitled Finding God in the Movies , 10.30 11.45 am.
Robert Johnston is author of Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue and co-director of Reel Spirituality: An Institute for Moving Images, part of Fuller Theological Seminary in California. Reel Spirituality is a creative encounter between the Church and Hollywood, featuring ministers and filmmakers in discovery of common ground as story tellers, image shapers, and culture makers. Robert and Cathy have recently completed Useless Beauty a book about how to preach Ecclesiastes using films as illustrative material.
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