Welcome to the Heraldic Production Company blog! With this, the inaugural post, I feel compelled to explain who we are, to layout our mission, and to establish the purpose for this daily communication.
Who we are: Your author today is Jim Spena, movie lover, amateur critic, and aspiring director. Sharing the posting duties with me on this blog will be my two partners in culture change, Dave Ballew and Jared Lightle. I will allow them to further introduce themselves in their own posts, but for today, the most important things that you need to know about us are: we love Jesus Christ, we believe that the principles of conservatism are founded in the wisdom of scripture, we hate the assault upon Biblical Christianity that is daily carried forward by liberalism, and we plan to re-capture our nations hearts and minds to the things of Christ by engaging the culture around us.
Our mission: To advance God’s kingdom. First, we must help fellow believers to have proper worldviews that are built firmly upon Biblical understanding. Second, we must engage the culture and attack the lies that have blinded and led astray millions. Entertainment is a powerful tool for influencing opinion, and there is no more frequented, loved, or influential medium in modern culture than the feature film. Yet, this tool for culture change has been largely ignored by Christians. We plan to take back this arena and “take every frame captive for Christ.” Our goal for each film will be: To entertain through the medium of film in a way that elevates thought and inspires emotion by weaving stories that accurately reflect God's truth and beauty.
The blog: Networking with fellow believers will certainly be a very important part of accomplishing our goals, but this is not the driving purpose of this blog. Writing is an excellent way to express and develop thoughts, and through this exchange of musings we hope to better develop our own understandings of God’s word, His creation, and His will for our endeavor into film making. If our ideas create an online audience, than that will be a blessing and an additional benefit.
Well, there's the context for the blog. What follows might be film criticisms, scriptural debates, philosophical questions, political discussions, cultural comments, movie ideas, or anything else on our minds. We hope that it will be edifying, God glorifying, and stretching intellectually for you and us.
Jim
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