I Read This Article This Last Week That I Would ...

I read this article this last week that I would like to pass on to you this morning – Listen to the thoughts: “Flee Sexual Immorality (Sex in the City, that includes you) Suzanne Hadley on Jun 6, 2008 at 9:35 AM:

Recently I wrote an article about world-friendliness. In it, I talked about how my media choices don’t always line up with my beliefs. Honestly, sometimes shows that promote values vastly different from mine seem pretty attractive. In discussing this disconnect, I gave the example of a professing Christian who openly raved about "Sex and the City" being her favorite show. Something seemed amiss.

Then yesterday I read an overall positive review of the movie Sex and the City ... on Christianity Today. Author Camerin Courtney is up front that "hedonism abounds" and calls the show "randy," but she seems to be looking for redemption in the wrong place. She writes:

Most of the few Christian voices speaking to the growing single segment of the population offer ten easy steps to find our soul mate. As if it’s that wondrously simple. Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda, however, show how challenging it really can be for intelligent, accomplished, and admittedly neurotic women to find lasting love. They, unlike many Christians, don’t insult my intelligence. Instead they speak to the complexities of relationships in a postmodern age—addressing baby lust, the mommy wars, sexual temptation, dating outside your "class," commitment-phobia, the reluctant desire to be rescued by a man, and the simultaneous fear that you’ll lose your own hard-won identity in the process.

While we may have a few things in common — we’re single and we like shoes — these women are hardly role models to help me to navigate my singleness. In fact, they are living their TV lives in a way that opposes God. If anything, they are a cautionary tale…”