I’ve been listening to people on talk radio for a couple days now, discussing the market bailout bill being discussed in Washington.

I’ve come to the solid conviction that I don’t understand it at all, and have no idea who’s right.

I think I vaguely comprehend the problem, and how the situation came to be. But what may be the right way to deal with it I cannot fathom, any more than I grasp quantum physics or pop music.



Apropos of Phil’s post below on the movie Fireproof, here’s a link that was sent to me, to Ted Baehr’s Movie Guide webcast, where they interview Kirk Cameron about the film. I share it primarily because the interviewer, Gail Nordskog, is the wife of my new publisher. (I suspect, due to the nature of the URL, that this link will change to a newer webcast before too long. So if you’re reading this a few days from now, you may get a different program.)



Do any of you know anything about the new Billy Graham movie? This isn’t a movie by Billy Graham (i.e., World Wide Pictures), but a movie about Billy Graham. I watched the trailer (someplace), and I find it intriguing. But it seems too good to be true.

It centers, apparently, on a crisis in Billy’s life that’s always fascinated me. Early in his ministry, he was friends with a Canadian named Charles Templeton, who was (by all accounts) as compelling a preacher as Billy. People were (metaphorically) taking bets as to which of them would be the great evangelist, the next Billy Sunday.

But Templeton fell under the influence of biblical higher criticism. He began to doubt the authority of Scripture, and ended losing his faith altogether (he became an eminent television journalist in his native country). Billy submitted to the authority of God’s Word, and went on to… well, we all know where he went.

Now, I just find it impossible to believe that a Hollywood movie would portray this crisis in those terms. I can’t imagine anyone in Hollywood (Lindsey Wagner and Martin Landau are in the film) doing a script where someone who believes in the inerrancy of Scripture is treated as anything but a fool and a bigot. My suspicion is that they’ll probably re-tell the story to make it merely a decision about faith or atheism, with the Bible as a secondary issue.

But I’m often wrong.

I read somewhere that the Graham kids disagree on the film. Gigi likes it; Franklin hates it. But I don’t know if my issue has anything to do with it.

Anybody know more?