To Bryan

I agree that Media Literacy is an important movement. It's a tough balance to strike, however, because in the Christian subculture it would difficult to talk about it without people fearing that you are asking them to watch everything and then make the judgement calls, and there are too many people still focused entirely on just never watching anything rated R, for example. But education about how to understand and view media responsibly is a must... not only for the sanity of individual media consumers, but for us to be able to work within that realm we must be able to play the game from the inside and make decisions from the same informed mindset as those who are media/communications experts.

The most valuable stuff I saw from you this week, Bryan, was the exhortation from the World Association for Christian Communication. Particularly the comment about the need for Christians to engage global mass culture for the sake of the disenfranchised and others who have been given no voice. We have seen in our research, and generally agree amongst one-another that the corporate-driven mass media industry does not always help raise the voice of the voice-less, however that is a unique contribution the Christian community can make--integrating inentional and skilled involvement in the Arts and Medias with our call from Jesus to seek out and serve the "least of these."