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Timothy McConnell's picture

The TV Problem

Submitted by Timothy McConnell on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 06:00

Does a true Christian watch TV?  I'm hit with the question once again.  Intersecting with all the hubbub about the LOST series and its deeper meaning is the question some of us still raise, and one I haven't answered:  are we supposed to watch this stuff or not?

I was looking at Marva Dawn's book, Keeping the Sabbath Wholly, last week while preparing for a sermon and was reminded that she doesn't watch TV.  I also read John Piper's reasoning behind rejecting TV: "Why I Don't Have a Television." 

When I was in seminary, my wife and I rejected TV one year for Lent.  It was the year that X-Files was at its peak, and was a favorite of ours.  We had decided we wouldn't watch TV, but we did allow ourselves to rent movies.  So here's how we did it...Read more