Trinity in Film

Last Monday it was hinted at that you couldn’t teach doctrine without lecturing…

The film ‘About a Boy’ seems to teach it admirably well, I used it as a reflection for today’s sermon – just watching the film would have been better of course – ‘No man is an Island’  (John Donne, not Jon Bon Jovi!! – you’ll have to watch it to get that one…)

2 Responses to Trinity in Film

  1. John Davies on May 19, 2008 at 11:15 pm

    Good choice. A friend bought me the book About a Boy as an ordination present… a bit surprising, it turned out to be one of the best gifts I got!

  2. Lent One: About a Boy — The Reluctant Ordained on March 8, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    [...] been fascinated with the film About a Boy for a while and used to to convey a message about the trinity, well Lent has come around, so now I have been busily delving into the richness of this film again, [...]

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