What is it about?
Drama and mission have more in common than is generally recognised. Using the personal experience of writing religious drama for the BBC, I set out to investigate how drama and mission are related enterprises through shared prophetic modalities: truth-telling, challenge, and love.
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Why is it important?
The relationship between drama and mission has historically been misunderstood, or denied. The article aims to show that, by recognising the root shared by drama and mission, both may find a renewed strength to tell the truth in a world satisfied and subdued by falsehood. Declining church congregations and dwindling TV viewing figures tend to be drivers for increasingly simplistic mission initiatives and risk averse, conservative drama development slates. Understanding what drama and mission share, relocates both in a challenging, prophetic stance to the prevailing culture.
Perspectives
The article comes from direct personal experience of writing Christian drama for BBC1. I have attemped to ground the reflections here on cutlure and truth-telling and the roles of drama and mission in the insights I gained from developing drama out of deeply moving research in Lancashire in the north of England.
Revd. Dr. Colin Heber-Percy
Ripon College Cuddesdon
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This page is a summary of: Gospel on the Box: Can Television Drama be Missional?, Mission Studies, October 2018, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341593.
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