We’ve been a bit slack

That’ll happen sometimes. Life happens. You get busy, work things, family things, personal things. All of these and then random things – they all collide and take up little chunks of time. Often time that you’re happy and willing to give up. But unfortunately sometimes they all collide at once and then you run out of time to think of smart or interesting or irritating things to write about. Sometimes you forget to post anything for a while.

That’s a real shame.

So yeah, it’s no excuse, but obviously we’ve been a bit busy lately. Please bear with us, and always feel free to chime in with the comments and so on.

I saw Evan Almighty today – the sequel to Bruce Almighty. Starring Steve Carrell (from the Get Smart remake, the American version of The Office and other stuff), it wasn’t too bad a movie really. One of the things I really like about both of those movies is the way that they turn simple questions of faith on their side sometimes. Subvert things a little bit. I like that.

Two of my favourite instances in Evan Almighty were:

1. when someone asks Evan how he really knew that God picked him (in a tone that made it clear the questioner didn’t think Evan was all that special), Evan replies “Because he chose all of us” – a great moment of turning the idea of being special to be chosen by God on its head.
2. when Evan’s wife (played by Lauren Graham, probably best known as Lorelai Gilmore (the Mum) from the Gilmore Girls) is experiencing extreme doubt about Evan’s sanity and unknowingly has a conversation with God (Morgan Freeman again), God asks her “When someone prays for something what do you think God gives them? The something, or the opportunity for something? When someone prays for patience does God just give them patience or does He give them the opportunity to be patient?”

So yeah, feel free to discuss this or anything else that strikes your fancy.