{"id":874,"date":"2008-01-28T06:29:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T12:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=874"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:57","slug":"juno-a-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Juno&#8211;A Reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I overlooked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/movies\/reviews\/2007\/juno.html\">a very good review of the film <em>Juno<\/em><\/a> when I posted last Friday. I can usually count on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/\"><em>Christianity Today<\/em><\/a> to be a little more broad-minded when it comes to the intersection of faith and culture and less-enamored with counting &#8220;swear words&#8221; than Focus on the Family&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluggedinonline.com\/\"><em>Plugged In Online<\/em><\/a>, and that&#8217;s certainly the case here.<\/p>\n<p>I especially like the &#8220;discussion starters&#8221; that follow the review. Now here&#8217;s a thought for some progressive, proactive church out there&#8211;why not take the youth gang to see it and then discuss the movie afterwards over coffee at Starbucks or some such?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctlibrary.com\/ct\/2008\/february\/10.35.html\">this guy<\/a> points out the sudden spate of &#8220;pro-life&#8221; messages in recent cinema. He, and those interviewed, also make the point that I made in the comments from my last post: art can influence behavior for the good, especially for those who may not view biblical teaching or Christian tradition as &#8220;authoritative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to more good art&#8211;like <em>Juno<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--15f076d3550d89f2f3a64fb68f0475e8--><\/p>\n<p><!--0f01007accf1136af31ce98cf61e9c15--><\/p>\n<p><!--1ec26fbe2f0cab6eff562045591386af--><\/p>\n<p><!--69f0ffce1be716c21654500be32a7ab9--><\/p>\n<p><!--0f01007accf1136af31ce98cf61e9c15--><\/p>\n<p><!--15f076d3550d89f2f3a64fb68f0475e8-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--1ec26fbe2f0cab6eff562045591386af-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--1ec26fbe2f0cab6eff562045591386af-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--1ec26fbe2f0cab6eff562045591386af-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--1ec26fbe2f0cab6eff562045591386af--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I overlooked a very good review of the film Juno when I posted last Friday. I can usually count on Christianity Today to be a little more broad-minded when it comes to the intersection of faith&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,76,90,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-faith","category-juno","category-movies","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9481,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/9481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}