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Discussion Questions for The Social Network

1)      While they’re still fresh, discuss your first impressions of The Social Network. What images or dialogue from the film linger in your mind? What does it leave you thinking about?

2)      One reviewer dubbed TSN, Five Angry Men.  Who are the angry men in the film? Why are they angry?

3)      In my review I assert that TSN isn’t about Mark Zuckberg or Facebook; it’s about relationships. In your opinion is this a fair charge?

2 Videos

1. Eric Metaxas discusses Bonheoffer. 8 minutes, here.

 


2. Tim Keller and author Gabe Lyons discuss The Next Christians:

 

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2011 Growth in Grace Cancelled

Our annual Growth in Grace event is cancelled due to inclement weather. Refunds will be made available. Please contact the office if you have questions (office@allsaintsaustin.org). Thanks.

Give away some of your stuff?

“Give away some of your stuff. See how it feels,” says Tammy Strobel in a widely read article from the New York Times, But Will It Make You Happy? The article explains how a growing number of Americans are attempting to step off the “work-spend treadmill” that seems to dominate our society. They advocate a number of new habits – a much smaller house, no car, only 100 personal items – as the means to finding happiness.  It’s an enjoyable read that serves as a thought-provoking companion piece to Andy Crouch’s From Purchases to Practices we considered earlier this summer.

Andy Crouch, Mick Jagger, & C.S. Lewis

I’ve had a hard time not taking personally Bill’s musings on Andy Crouch these past three weeks. Yes, the generation of which I am a member - Boomers - is the generation that elevated instant gratification to the chief place of honor on the list of Inalienable Rights. But give us some credit: we also realized how elusive it can be, as evidenced by the unofficial anthem of our Pursuit of Happiness: "I can’t get no satisfaction. I can’t get no satisfaction. ‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try. I can’t get no. I can’t get no."

Perhaps Mick Jagger and Andy Crouch have something in common?

What my generation couldn’t quite grasp, however, was why, despite our wholehearted pursuit of it, satisfaction was so hard to come by. Back in 1941 before there were any Boomers, C.S. Lewis anticipated our dilemma in his sermon The Weight of Glory:

From Purchases to Practices

"With their quick reliable hits of satisfaction, purchases are seductive. Building our life around them almost guarantees that we will never take the risk of embracing practices, which call us to long sustained difficulties and deferred gratification. But if we build our lives around practices, if our lives are defined by choosing what is initially difficult and staying committed to it over time, not only will the practices deliver long-lasting satisfaction — our purchases will take on a new and more satisfying quality."
~Andy Crouch, From Purchases to Practices

About power

Andy Crouch, author of "Culture Making," is at work on a new book about creative power. What does it mean to have creative power in a culture or society ... for Christians? What temptations does it present? What possibilities? He's embarked on a video project hitting on some of these questions as they arise from his discussions on the road. The first "best question" he shares: What can we learn from the Trinity about power?

Culture Making on the Road from Culture Making on Vimeo.