De La Mennais Brothers: Making Jesus Christ better known and loved by young people

Here's part of a very interesting article from the Thinking Faith  website by Frank Cottrell Boyce: screenwriter, author + long-time collaborator of Danny Boyle, who worked with Boyle in putting together the Opening Ceremony. From my own perspective of having been a GamesMaker volunteer Chaplain down in Weymouth I understand completely his point that the most important thing about the Opening Ceremony - and indeed the whole Games - was the idea of bringing people together. More about my own experiences a little later...  Click here for the full article.   Writing History: The Opening Ceremony in its Author’s Words I am still having flashbacks to some of the best moments of working on the Olympic Opening Ceremony. One evening,  some months ago : I was alone on the platform at Bromley-by-Bow when it was invaded suddenly by hundreds of volunteers heading home from their rehearsal for the Olympic Opening Ceremony: Londoners of every shape, size, age, race and ability, each carryi...

Here's an adaptation of the response I posted to a blog entry on Chris Curtis' blog SPOILER ALERT - for the film "Sunshine". DO NOT READ ON IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE ENDING. I thoroughly agree with Chris' take on the film and its thoughtful dealing with issues of science, faith, etc.... I have now seen the film twice. Like Chris I saw thematic similarities with a film I mentioned in an earlier post, "Children Of Men". A specific similarity can I think be seen in "Children..."'s use of the expression "Jesus Christ!" when people see the pregnant Kee, or Kee and her baby for the first time (eg. Theo + Sid) and in "Sunshine"'s use of "My God" (eg. Corazon finding a little surviving plant amidst the burnt out oxygen room - God perceived through nature - and Capa when he sees Pinbacker in the observation room in the near blinding light and Pinbacker replies "Not your God."... I think there's ma...