A reader writes:
I just read your latest in "This Rock" about your encounter with Jack Chick. Wow. What a weird experience that must have been. It was weird just reading about it. I’m impressed with how you maintained a charitable disposition. I don’t think I could have even approached the man for fear of getting beligerent with him. I can’t help but laugh at how the encounter must have appeared to him through his lense of paranoid narcissism (or is it narcissistic paranoia?).
I noted in my blog (http://flyfishinggalilee.blogspot.com) that the article reminded me of one of those cordial meetings in a casino (or similar setting) between James Bond and his current arch-nemesis. You should start introducing yourself as "Akin….James Akin." 🙂
What sort of film was he releasing? Will you be reviewing it on your website or in "This Rock?"
Thanks. Meeting Jack Chick was a truly surreal experience. I hope folks will check out the article on it in This Rock (it will also be put on the Web . . . eventually). Chick’s film, The Light of the World, is a standard presentation of the gospel as Chick understands it (with a few dashes of anti-Catholicism thrown in). I have a standing invite to review it for DecentFilms.Com,and I’ll post a link here when it gets done.
Incidentally, since Chick is such a recluse that he doesn’t let his picture be taken, I realized that I am now one of the few people who knows what he looks like. As a result, I decided to draw a picture of him–comic book style, of course! Here ’tis:
You have to re-post this picture!!! 🙂