by Eddie Pipkin
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay
In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, or you don’t do the ‘socials,’ or you don’t go to movies, you may have missed the media phenomenon which is happening this weekend called the Barbenheimer. On the same day, two highly anticipated but thematically opposite movies are premiering in theaters across North America: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, one a comedy musical featuring the infamous plastic heroine, the other a deadly serious biopic about the man who fathered the atomic bomb. This unlikely confluence of cultural touchstones has taken on a life of its own. It’s enough to get a ministry consultant wondering, as he sometimes does, if the church is staying relevant by riding on the coattails of meaningful moments and trendy topics?
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