Andy Crouch seems to me to model a good, gracious, hopeful perspective:
- First, it is better to create something worth criticizing than to criticize and create nothing.
- Second, one or two Christian kids with real talent somewhere in this vast land are going to see these movies, get the sacred-secular dichotomy knocked out of them at an early age, move to LA, work their tails off, dream, fail, and try again . . . and one day make truly great movies. These movies are significant not for their own excellence but for the door they open to cultural creativity that the church never should have lost.
For more, see Timothy Dalrymple’s thought-provoking post on Christians, film, and art.
