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Paul Bettany as Darwin

Paul Bettany as Darwin

In a first for a UK ministry, The Damaris Trust have announced that resources they produced for the movie Creation have been included on the DVD release of the film.

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Three leading academics with contrasting views discuss issues raised in the film. Other features include seven short clips, ‘Digging Deeper into Darwin’, by author Nick Spencer.

“This is the first time our resources have been endorsed and made available on a secular DVD release,” said Nick Pollard, founder of Creation DVDChristian educational charity the Damaris Trust. “We published them online when Creation went on general release. We are delighted that Icon, the film’s distributors, saw value in schools and church groups discussing issues raised in this excellent film – the existence of a creator God, evolution, humanity, suffering and faith.”

The three scientists featured are Dr Denis Alexander, a theistic evolutionist and director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge; Prof. Andy McIntosh, professor of thermodynamics and combustion theory at the University of Leeds, a young earth creationist speaking in a personal capacity; Prof. Lewis Wolpert, a developmental biologist at University College, London. He represents the views of atheists/humanists.

Creation dramatises Charles Darwin’s attempts to reconcile his theory about the origin of species with love for his devout Christian wife – and the impact of his 10-year-old daughter’s death on belief in a benign deity.

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CD review – The Screwtape Letters

by Ian on December 15, 2009

in Reviews

ScrewtapeFull cast dramatisation from Focus on the Family. Price £29.99. ISBN 9781589973244. Published by Tyndale.

I have to admit, anything with Andy Serkis (of Gollum fame) is going to have a lot going for it with me. He is a fine actor and a brilliant voice artist. Add Geoffrey Palmer into the mix and it is looking good.

We have a dramatisation of the whole of the CS Lewis classic which, for the uninitiated, is a series of letters from a senior ‘tempter’ to his young demon nephew. Combining wit and remarkable insight, the book has proved its worth for over 40 years. Remarkably, this appears to be the first time it has been dramatised.

Serkis plays the young tempter, with Palmer playing his devlish, and often exasperated, uncle. The production quality is outstanding and cinematic in quality; it really adds to the performances without distracting. The acting is, obviously, first class, and novelist Paul McCusker does a first-class job with the script adaptation.

If I have any niggles, it is the occasional ‘americanism’ that slips in to the script when Lewis’ text is expanded upon, and that the songs really jar. The sort of middle-of-the-road American pop/soul that probably works fine in North America, but is jarring compared to the actors voices on this side of the Atlantic.

With some of the temptations discussed in the play I’m not sure it is suitable with pre-teens, but otherwise it will make an excellent car-journey listen.

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Martin Smith interview – audio version

December 4, 2009

Below is a streaming full audio version of the interview with Martin Smith.
You can download the interview as an MP3 here or read the interviews: part 1 and part 2

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DigiMission: How technology shapes faith, church and mission

December 2, 2009

A report from Anna Moyle
Small-world theory, digital connectors, intimate anonymity, blogging in your pyjamas – the digital age has brought with it a new language and new ways of communicating, as well as unique challenges for the church.

These topics and more were discussed at DigiMission, an Evangelical Alliance event on 1st December in London. The [...]

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