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NBC's 'Book of Daniel' features Episcopal angle
Episcopal News Service ^
| 8/16/2005
| The Rev. Patricia McCaughan
Posted on 08/16/2005 5:04:13 PM PDT by sionnsar
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Hat tip to
titusonenine,
where the title needs to be fixed to say "NBC" instead of "ABC". Love the breathless hype: "bold and surprising storytelling" -- President, NBC Entertainment
With "Integrity" president Susan Russell behind this, the image it will present will likely just accelerate the departures from ECUSA.
(Nagging reliance on painkillers? Is this a Limbaugh reference?)
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posted on
08/16/2005 5:04:13 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
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posted on
08/16/2005 5:05:14 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
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To: sionnsar
LOL. I'm sure it was a flip of the coin whether it was going to be an Episcopal or a Southern Baptist ...
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posted on
08/16/2005 5:08:48 PM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(Nemo me impune lacessit)
To: sionnsar
Quinn portrays Daniel, a young, liberal priest and father who clashes frequently with his conservative bishop, Dr. Beatrice Congreve, played by Ellen Burstyn.It seems to me that the reverse is much more common in the Episcopal Church these days -- raving liberal bishops cracking down on orthodox Christian believers...
To: sionnsar
NBC will surely live up to it's acronyn of "Nothing But Crap" trying to get hold of the evangelical market with this show.
To: sionnsar
Am I mistaken in thinking that this series has nothing to do with the Book of Daniel in the Bible? One of the Anglican pastors I know, the Canon Rev Loong Kong, said of the Book of Daniel "describing the past and future of the nations, and prophecy illustrating the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven: how religions and nations come and go, and the fulfillment of the Kingdom of Heaven.".
In fact he is one of the few dispensational Anglican pastors/clergies I know. Oh wait, it was a product of another time and the Hong Kong Anglican Church is on another planet when compared with the ECUSA.
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posted on
08/16/2005 5:13:33 PM PDT
by
NZerFromHK
("US libs...hypocritical, naive, pompous...if US falls it will be because of these" - Tao Kit (HK))
To: sionnsar; lightman; TonyRo76; aberaussie; MarMema
Why do they have to make a "progressive" (i.e., gnostic liberal protestant) Episcopal priest the protagonist? Why not a heroic orthodox Episcopal priest or Lutheran pastor struggling against a revisionist church body while working to provide pastoral care to his parish, love his family, and be true to his Lord? Why not a heroic Orthodox priest (perhaps an ex-Episcopalian) building a mission congregation in an upscale neighborhood scarred by the fallout of "mainline" revisionism and societal decadence (e.g., Father Basil meets "Desperate Houswives")?
Oh, I know very well why. To the "progressive"-oriented TV networks and the "creative" community of TV producers, writers, etc. such orthodox characters are classified as "fundagelicals" and "bigots". If cast on TV at all, they could only be cast as villains.
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posted on
08/16/2005 5:41:26 PM PDT
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: Honorary Serb
What really needed to be said was countercultural in the 1960's and it is even more countercultural now. Of course, what needed saying then bears little to no relationship to what needs saying now, but I rest assured that NBC, et al, wouldn't say what needs saying until long after it is not worth talking about.
In Christ,
Deacon Paul+
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posted on
08/16/2005 6:16:42 PM PDT
by
BelegStrongbow
(St. Joseph, protector of the Innocent, pray for us!)
To: sionnsar
How long until they have the "Priest" getting a human booster shot from a guy named Molly?
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posted on
08/16/2005 6:20:23 PM PDT
by
trubluolyguy
(Well, why did you pull a gun on me if you didn't want to have sex?)
To: sionnsar
One can only imagine the leftist morality plays in store this season...
Episode 1. Daniel must confront his mixed feeling about whether to be up-front with his congregation about his more than platonic interest in the boys choir.
Episode 4. Daniel's congregation breaks into near civil war when it is revealed that non-organic flour has been used in preparing the Eucharist. This is compounded when parish vegans demand that the liturgy be revised to purge carnal references to body and blood, and instead use the terms tempe and juice.
Episode 6. Zany hijinx break out when Bishop Beatrice reveals that she used to be known as Bob and had once dated Daniel's Mom.
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posted on
08/16/2005 6:38:25 PM PDT
by
Huber
(For a leftist to become open-minded, they must first come to know Christ)
To: sionnsar
IIRC, the last time the nets had a show about an Episcopal priest, it was a so-called comedy starring Dan Akroyd..anyone else remember..
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posted on
08/16/2005 6:43:31 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
To: sionnsar
It's surprising alright... and laughable.
They have it backwards. I don't know of any women bishops who are conservative and the reality is that conservative priests are hounded and persecuted by liberal bishops not the reverse.
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posted on
08/16/2005 6:47:31 PM PDT
by
kalee
To: sionnsar
>>It is one more indicator of how much issues of faith and religion are in, right now,<<
Good grief, this "woman playing pastor" just doesn't get it, does she?
Religion is "in"? Whenever was it "out"?
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posted on
08/16/2005 6:47:52 PM PDT
by
ItsOurTimeNow
(Pap always said, "Never trust a Hogwallop!")
To: sionnsar
The funny thing is some Young boys and girls will get turned on by the show open their Bibles (lets pray they have them in their homes) and some of them will actually begin to hear the REAL WORD OF GOD. I know in my own life that was what started me down the path to salvation.
They can mock the truth, they can distort the truth, but the truth remains the truth.
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posted on
08/16/2005 7:00:00 PM PDT
by
wmfights
(lead,follow,or get out of the way)
To: sionnsar
The Rev. Susan Russell.... who is also national Integrity president.Oh, my! She's a lesbian priestess!!!! I didn't catch that before. What do you expect from the New World Order Broadcasting Company?
I think that my "Father Basil meets Desperate Housewives" plot has much better dramatic possibilities. Maybe they'd do better to flush the gaysbian-gnostic stuff down the toilet and hire me to develop the program concept and write the plot instead!!!!
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posted on
08/16/2005 8:20:57 PM PDT
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: Unam Sanctam
Quinn portrays Daniel, a young, liberal priest and father who clashes frequently with his conservative bishop, Dr. Beatrice Hillary Congreve, played by Ellen Burstyn.Hmm.
Already one new TV show with a woman President and now one with a woman Bishop.
The conditioning begins.
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posted on
08/17/2005 3:51:09 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Be a glowworm. A glowworm's never glum. How can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum?)
To: sionnsar
national Integrity president ........If you have to say it, you don't have it.
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posted on
08/17/2005 3:53:07 AM PDT
by
stocksthatgoup
(Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: N. Theknow
The show with the woman president won't last two months.
I wish that I could say the same for Hillary Rodham Izetbegovic Khomeini's campaign.
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posted on
08/17/2005 7:14:11 AM PDT
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: NZerFromHK
Am I mistaken in thinking that this series has nothing to do with the Book of Daniel in the Bible? I am sure you are correct.
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posted on
08/17/2005 7:22:11 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity || Iran Azadi)
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