Anne Rice and other Friday thoughts
Anne Rice’s headline-grabbing statement has been discussed on Guardian CiF this week, and I enjoyed this comment from Rebecca Jenkins, who genuinely sympathises with Rice, but also sees another side to the story:
Christian pilgrimage needs the irritation of the doubting outsiders, but it also needs the day-to-day toiling of the faithful within the churches.
Friday is supposed to be a winding down for the weekend, but it isn’t working like that for me this week: I have four thousand things to do today and I know they won’t all get done even if I stay late in the office (which I shall have to do). But one of these is preparation for a conference talk, and this task isn’t like work at all, because I have to prepare it on Prezi – an amazingly wonderful presentation tool. I have always hated powerpoint: it’s boring, uncreative and sucks the life out of any presentation. Prezi, though, is almost as much fun as making your own movies.
Speaking of movies, I had the great pleasure this week of running into an old friend in a radio studio. Since I last saw him, Mark Sutherland has been involved in making a movie called SUS – if you remember the sus laws of the 70’s and 80s you should look out for this movie, it’s very gutsy.
One task I shan’t even begin till next week is the growing pile of review books on my desk. The latest three look fantastic: all good reads judging by a quick skim, but I would recommend you buy Jonny Baker’s Curating Worship on the strength of the cover alone. Fabulous.
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