Jimmy Fallon

The church has a few things it can learn from Jimmy Fallon (host of the Tonight Show), according to The Moonshine Jesus Show. The popular podcast asked Twitter followers to tell them what they thought the church could learn from Jimmy Fallon. Fallon once reportedly wanted to be a Catholic priest. They’ve collated the responses, with some surprisingly insightful results. If you would like to know how the church should “embrace divine playfulness”, then read on here! 

Comedians in Australia are talking about Jesus too this week. In this refreshing article by British comedian Milton Jones, in Australia for the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Jones talks about his personal Christian faith in a funny and engaging way, and is given free airing to do so on the Herald Sun. It’s not often you read on a tabloid site an article about Christianity that has no other agenda other to “write about something I care about”. Read it here. (You might also be interested in reading about other Christian influences at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. ‘Squeaky Clean Comedy’ – comedy without the smut is one of them. Click here to read more of that story).

Russell Crowe as Noah

Though, the Bible itself has had a decent airing in the media since the release of Darren Aronofsky’s movie Noah. Blogger Nathan Campbell reviews it here, with 13 things you should know about the film, who calls it “the best presentation of the brokenness of the human condition I’ve ever seen from Hollywood” while making some disclaimers. He still thinks you should see it, though.

And while some are up in arms about the contextualisation that Aronofsky has used in his adaptation of Noah, the Gospel Coalition is this week talking about context in a different way. Eric McKiddie asks whether our efforts to ‘contextualise the gospel’ are all about ourselves, using the example of the current trend towards “urban church planters”.

Wherever you live—whether city, suburb, or rural—are you willing to contextualize the gospel to all, even people you don’t like so much? Or are you merely willing to become some things to some people, that by some means you might save some? If you have an overly defined segment of the population that you are trying to reach, it is possible you are merely trying to reach people whose company you prefer.

Read more here.

 

 Image of Jimmy Fallon – Daniel Oines via Flickr under CC License.