Day: January 24, 2006

does anyone who reads this blog own the dvd series firefly? i watched the movie “serenity” this past weekend and was amazed by what a good movie it is. i’ve been told that “firefly” the television show that the movie was a continuation of is just as good. unfortunately blockbuster does not stock it. i’m not sure i want to buy the dvd set until ‘ve at least seen one and can judge for myself if it is as good as the movie or not. thus i am begging you people. if you have the set please let me borrow it. i promise to bring it back without peanut butter stuffed into the box.

[tags]serenity, firefly[/tags]

here’s the multimedia prayer i developed within swish for “the view” tomorrow night. it’s my own paraphrase of the prayer suffrage b from the daily evening prayer: rite one out of the book of common prayer. the ambient music in the background came from the “podsafe” mp3s of garageband.com. it’s from a band called “anyma.” pretty cool stuff in my opinion.

within firefox it loops for some reason that i don’t understand. it might do the same thing within other browsers but i don’t use any other browsers at my church computer so i can’t really judge that. the flash file itself doesn’t loop.

this past weekend was the second time i have done a sabbath retreat with our youth. i posted about last year’s sabbath here. here, and here. the “sabbath” is a weekend that focuses on spiritual disciplines, solitude, quietness, community, and rest.

last year i wasn’t sure how the whole thing would work. it went much better than i could ever have expected. so we did it again this past weekend and it i was once again thankful for it. of course, i will change a few things next year. the first of which is to go back to three days and two nights. this year we did only friday and saturday rather than friday, saturday, and sunday. the extra day makes a huge difference. to paraphrase the end of “animal farm” – “two days good, three days bettter.”

in a world full of electronic noise the sabbath weekend has one electronic moment. we view a film together and then discuss the spiritual implications and themes of the movie. last year we watched “a knight’s tale” – a film that was full of discussion. deciding to stick with movies that had adam tudyk within them i showed serenity for us this year. i had not heard much about this movie before. we loved it. it was great. not only was it an entertaining movie but it also led to some great discussion.