This year’s Oscars may have been passed out, but for some churches across the country the major motion picture season is just getting started.
Frustrated with the movies Hollywood has been releasing, more and more congregations are making their own feature films.
One is Friends Church here in Yorba Linda, a Quaker congregation with an evangelical megachurch worship style where members are finishing production on a film called “Not Today.”
[blockquote]a Quaker congregation with an evangelical megachurch worship style[/blockquote]
I’m sorry, but I had to laugh out loud at that one. Quietism meets Megachurch electric guitars. Someone somewhere is turning over in their grave on this one.
While church productions may not replace Hollywood studios, there is a certain justice in this, as Hollywood has in general villified the church, morality, and Christianity in so many movies in the last 30-40 years. It would be rather neat to see theaters opting for church produced movies on their screens, leaving Hollywood chum on the shelf.
[blockquote]Someone somewhere is turning over in their grave on this one.[/blockquote]
The Friends have gone though many twists and turns over the past 180 or so years. There are many branches of Quakers in America, some who still believe and worship much as in the 18th and 19th Century, some more modern and Unitarian, and some who took an Evangelical, Holiness way of worship. The question I would ask of all meetings is: what would George Fox stand up and say if he came to meeting?