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February 3, 2008 Commentary:
That’s Entertainment!

Hello and welcome to another broadcast of the White Horse Inn. Well there’s no business like show business. And from the look of things, the church in America agrees. I don’t even need to recount examples in order to substantiate that claim. If you have been around a fair number of churches these days you are bound to know what I am talking about. I used to think that American Christianity was just accommodating to the general cultural trend that Neil Postman described in his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. But after reading a spate of culture histories, have come to realize that the church actually helped create our culture of entertainment. Once upon a time the church was the only show in town, for rich and poor, princes and peasants the spectacle of the Medieval Mass was high drama. In fact the relative difficulty of the Reformation in reaching the lowest classes was probably to some extent at least due to the attachment of the masses to mysterious rituals, processions, morality plays, and similar attractions. Convinced that the Bible should be heard, read, and understood by everybody in their own language the Reformers introduced Europe to wide-scale literacy with an emphasis on an educated ministry for a well instructed laity.

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Our subject is “That’s Entertainment: Confusing Church and Theater from Finney to the present.”

Oldtruth.com has been dealing with the issues presented in this program for a few years now. You can find a lot of information involving various topics concerning the “seeker”-sensitive movement here:
http://www.oldtruth.com

TeamPyro has been deals alot with the “emergent church” of digressives. You can find information here:
http://teampyro.blogspot.com

Fight News Unlimited Writer Rich Bergeron is fighting a free speech battle in the Clark County court system in Las Vegas. Please visit www.unlimitedfightnews.com/xyience.htm to learn how to support his legal defense fund.

In this segment, he reviews the politics of political protest and what works (and what doesn’t).

- Lee’s production company, 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, has produced
more than 35 films since 1983 and opened entertainment industry doors
to many actors, filmmakers and craftspeople of color

- Hollywood turns out to celebrate the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker
behind such movies as “Jungle Fever,” “Malcolm X,” “Do The Right Thing”
and the Emmy-winning 2007 miniseries “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem
in Four Acts,” documenting the devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane
Katrina

- In addition to writing, producing, directing and acting, Lee teaches
film at Columbia University and New York University, and is the author
of nine books

- The Chrysler Foundation will donate $25,000 in Lee’s name to his alma
mater, Morehouse College in Atlanta
Spike Lee, one of the most influential figures in contemporary cinema,
became the sixth recipient Wednesday of the Chrysler LLC Behind the Lens
Award. Some 400 guests attended the award ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire
Hotel in Beverly Hills, California in recognition of the outstanding
achievements of the director of such groundbreaking films as “Jungle
Fever,” “Do The Right Thing” and “Malcolm X”; who helped launch the
big-screen careers of Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson and John Turturro, as
well as numerous other actors, filmmakers and craftspeople.

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