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Book review
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When I hear the terms ‘PowerPoint + church + this Sunday’, I usually want to run a mile. Blue backgrounds, bullet points, default font and a different animated transition for each slide-change mark something of the ubiquity of boring presentations on the new data projector that the church has just acquired amid great fanfare. Digital Storytellers is a surprisingly good book from the USA and gives insight and creative wisdom for media ministry within church, that goes far beyond the `screen-up-the-front with projected sermon notes and song lyrics’ type of thing common to many church services. The authors clearly have a passion for creating worship media that genuinely relate to the people of today, in particular those with digital DNA - the 'mysterious ingredient that young people carry around’. ContentionsThe book discusses the role of the arts in the life of the church in connection with the wider world and ponders the issues of redeeming popular culture for the communication of biblical truths. What's made clear is that a `digital mindshift’ is required if church communities wish to embrace Gospel storytelling in the post-modern age. Various bits of jargon are introduced in this book - such as `digital age worship interface' - and unpacked with skill and clarity. Contentions are raised: the comment is made that if our culture is truly built from digital DNA, then to do anything less than create worship that is true to digital DNA is racist. MissDigital mindshifts are scary things and I imagine many churches, particularly those devoid of young people, will be happy to give it all a miss, but, in the grand scheme of things, ignoring these issues will be done at their own peril. Digital Storytellers comes with a DVD which is actually not brilliant but worth a look after you've read the book. |
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