Caspian's PG and David Dark's Next

Did Prince Caspian get the right rating?

Cinematical's Eric Snider thinks the "PG" is misleading.

I didn't know the rating before I watched it, and I didn't remember, off the top of my head, whether the first Chronicles of Narnia was PG. (It was.) As Prince Caspian unfolded, I noted that there was an awful lot of stabbing, throat-slitting, and other killing, though I also noted that it was almost entirely bloodless. I figured it was the lack of gore that had prevented the film from being rated R, and that it was instead a moderately violent PG-13.

So I was flabbergasted to discover afterward that it was rated PG.

Stephen Lamb is blogging about hearing David Dark read a sneak preview of his upcoming book The Sacredness of Questioning Everything.

In David's upcoming book, each chapter will be devoted to questioning a different thing. He mentioned questioning The Future, Being Offended, Religion, Government, and the Media; I think he said there will be ten or eleven chapters in all. He read an excerpt to us from one chapter on what he learned while watching Michael Scott on an episode of NBC's The Office. He mentioned that, "what we call comedy is the space where everything can be talked about."

A quote that has meant a lot to him recently is from John Howard Yoder - "Jesus has the power to unendingly meet new worlds." And because of that, if we believe it is true, we don't have to be afraid of things changing, of post-modernism or other shifts in our culture and in our lives...