Peter T Chattaway
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Award-winning writer with a special interest in film and faith, and in the Bible movie genre specifically. 'Aqaba is over there. It's only a matter of going.'
Vancouver, BC
Joined December 2008
#LightoftheWorld is now in theatres, and the producers have released one more clip, in which John (the disciple-to-be) meets John (the baptizer). Side note: would John the Baptizer have said that baptism is "just a symbol"? Link in the next tweet.
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RT @shellenberger: Like him or not, Malcolm Gladwell is one of the most influential and financially successful journalists of the last 30 y….
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RT @redsteeze: What backlash? No really, what is this? There was literally no backlash. What?.
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The first trailer for the first season of #ThePromisedLand -- the Office-style mockumentary comedy series about Moses leading the Israelites in the wilderness -- is here. Link in the next tweet.
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I ended up punting some of my thoughts to the footnotes, but even *there* I had to strip back some of the various tangents I could have gone on.
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Incidentally, there is one paragraph (possibly more than one, but one especially) that took me a *long* time to write, because I was trying to express a complex idea in a relatively brief space *and* I was trying to describe how this film follows other films in kinda ignoring it.
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Now entering into the second half of #TheCovenant, The Lumo Project's condensed but otherwise word-for-word adaptation of The Torah (with a framing device taken from Ezra and a few other books). In this installment: God calls Moses and sends the plagues. Link in the next tweet.
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So he was told he couldn't go on Twitter but no one said anything about going on Substack? What about Facebook? Instagram? Carrier pigeon?.
When @Glinner landed at Heathrow, he was met by five armed police officers, and immediately arrested. His ‘crime’? Three gender-critical tweets. As Graham says in his Substack:. “In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women
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Two random data points: This was one of the weakest Labour Day weekends of the modern era (only 2020 and 2022 were worse this century, even before you adjust for inflation). And Darren Aronofsky had one of his better first weekends in wide(-ish) release.
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#BoxOffice: #Weapons was the first movie to be #1 in its 4th weekend since January 2024 (although two other films did bounce back to #1 in their *5th* weekends in the interim), and the top "new" movie this week was the 50th-anniversary re-release of #Jaws. Link in the next tweet.
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Martin Scorsese is in two of these pictures. Oscar Isaac is in two of these films. Two of these productions are animated. And so on.
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#TheChosenAdventures is coming to Prime Video October 17, Netflix's #RuthandBoaz has a trailer, Martin Scorsese is playing a mysterious mentor/sage named Isaiah *again*, and more. Lots more (especially where #TheChosen is concerned). Link in the next tweet.
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Not only that, but at least one scholar has proposed that the Dayenu was composed *as a response to a Christian Good Friday hymn that accuses Jews of being ungrateful for the Exodus*. So that just makes the Christianizing of the Dayenu even more. hmmm.
en.wikipedia.org
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#TheChosen is now selling T-shirts and hoodies with a line from the Dayenu: Christian merch appropriating Jewish Passover songs. And The Chosen's website calls the Dayenu "ancient". It isn't. It was composed in the Middle Ages.
gifts.thechosen.tv
“It would have been enough.” Mary Magdalene. Tamar. Eden. Mother Mary. Joanna. Mary and Martha of Bethany. The women say each word through tears. They knew His presence like few ever will. And in...
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Makes me yearn for how the Biblical Archaeology Review style guide refused (and maybe still refuses?) to take a stand on BC/AD vs BCE/CE. Let the writers use whatever term they're comfortable with. We all know what they meant.
Evidence that woke isn't dead, peer review is problematic, and science needs to address deep problems in its culture: A grad student at Harvard conducted the first systematic, data-based study to document & explain the rise in gender dysphoria. His paper was rejected from a.
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Behold, a revised (and ad-free!) version of the scene-by-scene guide to Paul, Apostle of Christ that I wrote in 2018. I thought it would be a simple copy-and-paste from the blog, but I ended up making *lots* of (mostly) little changes. Link in the next tweet.
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