Movie Thoughts: Inception

When I wrote about Rob Bell last week, I said I was "late to the party."  I guess when you review a movie that has been out on video for at least several weeks and was the #1 movie in theaters months ago, you could say I arrived at the party when the dip is gone and the drinks are warm.  Still, I have some thoughts about how the ideas of Inception relate to our own understanding of reality.

This is not really a movie review, though.  This post is really for people who have already seen the movie or intend never to see it (it has lots of spoilers).  I am not necessarily recommending the movie (it is really violent in places, has some language issues, and there aren't really any strong positive characters), but I did enjoy it.  Director Christopher Nolan has a knack for producing thought-provoking movies that raise interesting questions about human nature and how we cope with the world around us.  The ideas in Inception relate directly to both the Christian hope and the lie of the devil in Genesis 3...

Rob Bell and Eternal Destinies

I know I'm really late to the party, but I had a lot of thoughts last week about the whole Rob Bell "Love Wins" controversy (for more info, click here, here, and here), and I wanted to share them, in case anybody wanted to read them.  I guess the central fear here is that Rob Bell, who has been called a "rock star" in the Christian world, is now teaching universalism, or that everyone will eventually be saved.  He also seems to suggest that good people in other religions, Gandhi specifically, can gain salvation without a Christian conversion.  The caveat here, of course, is that the book hasn't come out yet, so I'm not going to address Rob Bell specifically, but instead express some of my thoughts (guided, I think, by the Spirit through prayer and by Scripture) about some of these issues.