In case you missed it I’ve been blogging my take on the modern cultural equivalents/diametric opposites to the be-attitudes. This has taken the form of cartoons. If you haven’t seen them yet they’re all here on the blog feed (well me attitudes 1-5 anyway) 6-8 should turn up next week although as I’m away there may be some time lag on them if I can’t get them ready to go before then.
The idea is that you add your comments and start a discussion on how the beatitudes should affect us and how they might put us in conflict with some modern cultural values.
I recently returned from a training event run by Scripture Union in which we focused on the Beattitudes (Mathew 5) We were challenged to think how they conflict with modern values. I have responded with a series of cartoons that will appear here (this is the first!) The others will not have any comment from me but feel free to ask questions or make comments on any of them (I’ll try to do one a day this week but as I’m away for a couple of days it’s likely that it won’t happen!) Eventually there will be 8 of them!
Fascinating story here about a Farmer who politely asked Rihanna to stop filming on his land as he believed her video was inappropriate. Great to see someone making a moral stand in a time when so much seems to just be allowed to go.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15072380
Music videos have become more and more risqué in recent years (part of a general media trend). Hopefuly this Farmer’s stand will make Rihanna think a bit more about what she includes in her videos (and songs!) in future.
After playing around with sketchbook pro I have come up with a fairly basic illustrated version of Paul’s letter to Philemon – I will post it in the next couple of days once I’ve had a chance to look over it an make sure I’m happy with it – may add a couple of extra illustrations but for now here are the main characters (L-R) Onesimus, Philemon, Paul and Aphia.
Let me know your thoughts!
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