“Lord of the Rings, Politics, and What’s a Christian to Do?” That’s the theme for our annual Fall Retreat (October 17-18) with special guest teacher Rev. Steve Pearson.

Back for a second conversation in the series, Steve joined Pastor Chris to talk about the first movie in the trilogy, “The Fellowship of the Ring.” Steve summarized the characters and plot, then talked about themes in the movie through the lenses we named in the first of our conversations: power (the nature of); fellowship; and sovereignty and freedom.

Food for thought: In his movies, Alfred Hitchcock used to talk about what he called a “MacGuffin,” a thing that everyone was after that helped drive the story. He famously said that it didn’t matter what the MacGuffin was– that the thing itself was irrelevant to the plot. In Lord of the Rings, there is an object at the center of the story, but it’s no empty, irrevelant object. Can you think of some reasons why?

For more information about the retreat and Steve, please go here.