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  • How Jesus is like, but better than Ted Lasso

    How Jesus is like, but better than Ted Lasso

    Ted Lasso is the TV discovery of 2020 in our household. It’s streaming on Apple TV, and it’s worth a subscription for a month just to plough through the ten episodes. I’m delighted to see it getting the attention it deserves. It’s a beautiful example of a movement in the arts called ‘the new sincerity’…

  • How the Gospel is like Pixar’s Onward, but better

    How the Gospel is like Pixar’s Onward, but better

    Pixar’s Onward is now top of the Pixar charts for me. It’s a stunning movie, and it seems a terrible shame that its cinematic release was stunted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The movie follows two brothers on a path to re-enchantment; one is a hopeless cynic, the other, his a hopeful, wishful even, older brother…

  • How C.S Lewis is like Roald Dahl, but better (and Aslan is like Willy Wonka, but better)

    How C.S Lewis is like Roald Dahl, but better (and Aslan is like Willy Wonka, but better)

    My kids have hit the age where lots of the books I loved — that formed and form my imagination — are starting to resonate with them. We’ve been devouring Roald Dahl classics as audiobooks, and we’ve worked through a couple of the Chronicles of Narnia. I love Roald Dahl, but I’ve noticed (as have…

  • How Jesus is like Fortnite, but better

    How Jesus is like Fortnite, but better

    Fortnite is a global phenomenon. The free-to-play first person shooter from Epic Games has just celebrated its first birthday. It’s just cracked $1 billion in revenue from in game purchases (and the growth there seems exponential, it started raking in more than $300 million a month back in May). It has 125 million players globally.…

  • How Jesus is like Caesar Augustus, but better

    How Jesus is like Caesar Augustus, but better

    It’s the year 2017 AD in the western world this year. Did you know that the AD means anno Domini; which is latin for ‘the year of our Lord’… our calendar counts the years from an estimate of the year that Jesus was born (it’s probably a few years out). But things could be different. We…

  • How the Gospel of Jesus is like the story of Moana, but better

    How the Gospel of Jesus is like the story of Moana, but better

    Moana is the best Disney princess movie I’ve ever seen. And as a 33 year old bloke you might be wondering just how extensive my knowledge of Disney princess movies is, but as a brother of three sisters, and father of two daughters, and as someone who likes to embrace my ‘sensitive’ side sometimes while…

  • How the Gospel is like Frozen, but better

    How the Gospel is like Frozen, but better

    I have a five year old daughter. Which means I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen Frozen, let alone the times we’ve sung along to the soundtrack. I also have an almost two year old daughter, so there’s no sign of this trend letting up any time soon (plus sequels…). Frozen is, for all…

  • How Jesus is like Batman but better…

    How Jesus is like Batman but better…

    I love Batman. I’ve always had a soft spot for the Caped Crusader; whether it’s the Adam West Batman from the 1950s-1960s, the cartoons I grew up with, the Christian Bale ‘Dark Knight’, Lego Batman, the Batman of the Arkham series of games, or even, dare I say it, Affleck-Batman. I love the idea of…

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