May 27, 2009 @ 12:52 am
HAHA, right?
I feel like there should be a voice over saying “Coming up next…It’s Your The God Of This City at 8, followed by You’re The King Of These People at 9, and finally You’re The Lord Of This Nation at 10. And then stay tuned for the network premiere of You’re The Light In This Darkness after the 11 o’clock news!”
March 21, 2009 @ 9:10 am
The last place I thought I’d ever find good pictures of anything is Amazon.com. But at the moment their page for the newly released A Lion Called Christian book has some remarkable new pictures of Christian in his early days.
Of course, if you buy the book, you’ll see even more never-released pictures, but for now, you can enjoy these cute ones. I really wish my cats were this big.
March 21, 2009 @ 8:57 am
Remember Christian the friendly lion who hugged and hugged and hugged his two human friends after reuniting in the wild? Yeah? When you saw the video, did you think, Gosh, I’d really like to read about that story one day now that I’ve seen the video!
If you did, then you’re in luck because the story has been made into a book called A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond between Two Friends and a Lion
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the wild.
A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969, bought the boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For several months, the three of them shared a flat above a furniture shop on London’s King’s Road, where the charismatic and intelligent Christian quickly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at a local restaurant, even posing for a fashion advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up—fast—and soon even the walled church garden where he went for exercise wasn’t large enough for him. How could Ace and John avoid having to send Christian to a zoo for the rest of his life? A coincidental meeting with English actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of the hit film Born Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and placed under the expert care of “the father of lions” George Adamson. Incredibly, when Ace and John returned to Kenya to see Christian a year later, they received a loving welcome from their lion, who was by then fully integrated into Africa and a life with other lions.
Originally published in 1971, and now fully revised and updated with more than 50 photographs of Christian from cuddly cub in London to magnificent lion in Africa, A Lion Called Christian is a touching and uplifting true story of an indelible human-animal bond. It is is destined to become one of the great classics of animal literature.
YouTube clips hardly ever have the chance to tell a full story, so this book should be a good item for anybody wishing they knew more about the big cat and his former owners.
February 4, 2009 @ 11:33 am
Photo: Benjamin Hager for Gwinnett Daily Post
BEST. SHIRT. EVER.
Praise the Lord for the creative mind behind this item.
January 15, 2009 @ 5:26 pm
Back in October, a straight-to-DVD movie was released under the name of Sunday School Musical. It followed the lives of several teenagers who bond together in song and dance in order to save their church from closing. Sound interesting? I thought so too. Nothing angers me more than this sort of half-thought-out copycat syndrome so prevalent in Christianity today. It goes back to an entry I wrote earlier about why I think this sort of stuff is bad for the Christian image. It makes the whole world think we’re totally cheesy and unconnected to anything around us.
I mean, if the title didn’t tip you off to it already, you can pretty much bet that Sunday School Musical is terrible. IMDB reviewers think so, and I totally agree with this particular review.
Anyway, I wanted to see just how bad this film was, so I downloaded it and I’m going to write a full review in a couple of days. Anybody want to join me for a Sunday School Musical movie night? Let me know.
Interesting to note what Wikipedia says about Faith Films (the production company that released this film). That they are known for making low budget films that capitalize on the release of larger ones — in this case, running with the “High School Musical” craze and creating this monster. Watch the trailer below.
November 26, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
Photo: China Photos/Getty Images
The Big Picture takes a look at the reconstruction process going on in Sichuan, China 6 months after a devastating 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck the region. There seems to be much progress in the rebuilding as the Chinese government works feaverishly to get people out of the temporary tents and back into 4-walled homes.
The image above of a monument made from found structures in the debris struck me as rather interesting because of its context. While there are certainly Christians living in China, the country has had a reputation of being less-than-friendly to its Christians. I’ve heard stories of Christians having to disguise their faith in order to not be persecuted by the government, and yet here is a hill adorned with crosses seemingly out in the open in China.
I know the cross isn’t unique to the Christian faith, but it is definitely one of the stronger images that Christians and non-Christians associate with the faith and it’s really great that people in this area are possibly looking to a higher power in this time of trouble and that the government is allowing such symbols to stay standing.
I know I could be looking too deep into it and that in the end this could be nothing more than just an earthly sign of hope for the people in the area, but it’s something I thought about when I saw this image.
