The not-always-on-target Google Alert I’ve set up for all things Twilight returned something very interesting this morning.
It was a post on the PJ Lifestyle blog by Rhonda Robinson that defended Twilight from a Christian point of view. Rhonda’s very first point is to make it very, very clear that she is not a Twi-Mom. Vampires, flying monkeys and all other unnatural things always got under her skin and creeped her out for days in the past. She said if she’d known there were vampires in the first Twilight movie she would have never seen it.
But… she did… and she found in it allegories about the truth of evil (that it can be incredibly attractive) and the truth of love (it can be incredibly difficult), that sold her on the value of Twilight. She uses her platform on the blog to entreat her fellow Christians to reconsider any hardline stance against the Twilight Saga lest they throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Needless to say, I completely agree with her.
It’s worth saying again. Right now a vast swath of the culture speaks “Twilight”. If we are to be intentionally missional with our life (“you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” kind of applies to everyone everywhere) we need to speak the native tongue.
