Sep 11, 2006
Russell Moore has a funny little commentary on the TNIV being the official translation of Relevant Magazine. I found this to be fantastic little weave of satire and wit. If you are a huge TNIV fan (I'm not) and can't laugh you may not like this. But I think whether you are über-Relevant or a 1950s pipe organ player you will get a kick out of this.
We know CS Lewis would not be allowed to be a Southern Baptist pastor (the moderate beer drinking thing), but he sure wrote, according to Moore, a great "early screenplay for The Chronic(what?)cles of Narnia movie that provided the context for Saturday Night Live's "Lazy Sunday" skit."
If you have never seen Lazy Sunday it has been everywhere for a long time...and it might indicate you are not really with it.
My only edit to Dr. Moore's post would be to adjust his urban venacular in the final line. I would change it to: "Its all about the Benjamins, baby!" as this phrase is a bit more relevant. See Urban Dictionary. Or perhaps they knew this and used the "All about the Hamiltons" phrase on purpose to poke at sounding cool. If so, the post is more masterfully written than I previously thought.
Touché! Dr. Moore. Thank you for spurring the gift of laughter in the church.
Comments
“The One enthroned in heaven laughs”
(Psa 2:4 TNIV)
:-)
Posted by: R. Mansfield | September 11, 2006 08:15 PM
Rick, I don't know Dr. Moore, but I was pretty surprised with his wit in this one. Culturally quite nimble...
Equally impressive was your wonderful quotation of the Scriptures...in the TNIV no less :) Nicely done.
Posted by: Reid | September 11, 2006 09:03 PM
Dr. Moore has always had a good sense of humor--even when I was his classmate (I'm so behind!).
Posted by: R. Mansfield | September 11, 2006 10:22 PM
My guess would be that the "All about the Hamiltons" line is again referencing the Lazy Sunday SNL skit.
"Reached in my pocket, pulled out some dough
Girl acted like she'd never seen a 10 befo'
It's all about the Hamilton's baby
Throw the snacks in the bag and I'm ghost like Swayze."
=)
Pretty funny article, by the way.
Posted by: Geoffrey Lessel | September 14, 2006 09:41 AM
Nice catch Geo - your familiarity with the transcript of Lazy Sunday is on point.
So they were very on top of things afterall. Of course the SNL people were making fun with the "Hamiltons" ditty - for nobody wants Hamiltons, 10 bucks!? It is all about Benjamins. And there have been movies and songs about that...
Hey, when do you guys move?
Posted by: Reid | September 14, 2006 10:01 AM