I was quite astonished this weekend to find a very kind note from Kim Avery, inviting me to post this graphic on my blog and congratulating me for being named a top ten blogger for Christian women. Do visit the list of winners. I found some familiar favorites there and added some bright new places to my Google Reader as well. I'm honored to be counted among them. Thank you!
Go visit the ever-lovely Sarah for some ideas on how to conquer mid-winter burnout.
As Bump begins to gain some notoriety, I've noticed that astute reviewers are pointing out the flaws. In this particularly thoughtful essay, Mary Hasson articulates the sum of what I think is inherently wrong with the premise of the show.
Other bloggers are quick to point out other problems.
Please bear in mind that Bump is the project of college students from John Paul the Great University. These are young adults preparing to be a force for good in the culture of television and new media. We need them to succeed! Clearly there are flaws--some much bigger than bad acting--but kudos to them for taking a risk and for initiating conversation. Hopefully,they won't be discouraged by the imperfections and the way they are sure to be discussed. Hopefully, they'll look back on this experience fondly as one in which they learned a great deal and moved forward with resolve and hard-won wisdom to claim media for the good guys in culture war. I think we can encourage that ultimate success in the way that we respond to this series and influence the conversation.
Yesterday, I noted that Danielle Bean, Lisa Hendy and I were talking about teens and technology at Faith and Family Live! In the course of the conversation, I rather flippantly said that I'm a failure at controlling technology use. When three women have fifteen minutes total to discuss a topic, it's a good idea to think ahead and decide what's most important to say. I chose to spend my 5-ish minutes letting people know about Mpower. Because I know that Mpower will do a far better job than the one I'm doing, despite my long history of working diligently at techonology control. This generated some mail and some Facebook comments chock full of advice and admonitions for my cavalier attitude towards the evils lurking in my home electronics.
Rest assured, my husband and I spend considerable time keeping tabs on what's happening in all those screens. We've pretty much kept up with the technology wave. That said, I am looking forward to the launch of Mpower so that minds who are much more educated and agile than mine will be on my side to wage war on any evil prowling about for the ruin of souls. The reality is that I've been at this a while and history and experience tell me that just as sure as I go to sleep tonight self-assured that I've sealed up all venues of evil and protected my children from all electronic harm, my boys (the girls, not so much) will discover a new gadget or network or game or venue that I never could have imagined.There will be system failure. Been there, done that. There's always something. That's why I am so looking forward to these guys taking on the job. They are ever so much more imaginative than I am.
Come listen to today's podcast on Faith and Family Live! in which I come clean about being a failure at technology control.
I'm Elizabeth. I'm a happy wife and the mother of nine children. I grab grace with both hands and write to encourage myself and others to seize and nurture the joy of every day. I blog here with my daughter, Mary Beth, a wholehearted young lady on the brink of adulthood.
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