Friday, May 02, 2008








ENGAGING CULTURE...INTELLIGENTLY!
I had the opportunity to see Ben Stein's new documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed last night. In the next few days I will add a review of the movie, but for now here are a couple of thoughts:

1) This is a great opportunity for you to begin dialog with your friends and neighbors about your faith. The movie opens the door for conversation about the origin of life and the empty explanations offered by darwinian scientiests about beginnings!

2)This is a great opportunity for churches to engage their community. I would love for our church to rent out a theater and offer free tickets to all of the science teachers in our county's school district.
3) The film had a wonderfully successful opening weekend with a VERY limited opening. Many theaters were reluctant (even opposed) to showing this movie. Public outcry (measured best by TICKET SALES) is the best way to convince other theaters to join in. But word of mouth can also help spread influence. Here’s what you can do right now to ensure that hundreds of additional theaters not only show the film, but keep it running for several weeks:

Call or go to your local movie theater and ask the manager to show the film. If you are not sure where/who to call in your area, then use this toll-free number in the U.S. and someone will share that local information with you: 800-705-0485.

Go to your church leadership and encourage them to buy out a local theater so that Expelled could be shown there—and then make sure as many people from that church attend as possible.
Send the following email link about the film to your email contact list:
You can print out Expelled flyers (http://www.expelledthemovie.com/freedownloads.php) and then pass them out.

These actions are key to a successful promotion of this heroic film, especially since a backlash is already building against it by the evolutionist community.

We also encourage you to spend time browsing the interactive Expelled website: http://www.answersingenesis.org/link.asp?http://www.ExpelledTheMovie.com.

1 comment:

Kelly said...

Tony and I went to see this movie 3 weeks ago and then the very next week we took our youth group to see it again. They LOVED it!! It is an awesome movie. I think everyone should see it!!