Prequel to This Year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special
Here's the prequel to this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special.
The prequel is basically spoiler-free except that at the very end it reveals the title of the special (already well-known to many). It seems that, as with last year's special, this one is inspired by a beloved work of English literature.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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3 thoughts on “Prequel to This Year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special”
Jimmy,
Obviously you can do whatever you want with your website. I personally think it’s a drag, though, that you spend so much time with stuff like Dr. Who, Deep Space Nine or Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (or whatever the heck sci-fi it is that you’re so enamored with), carb-free rice, etc. etc. You have a unique ability to do apologetics in layman’s terms. You’re uniquely not a seminary-trained pantywaist. The number of people who do what you do the way you do it in English could probably be counted on one hand. I find it unfortunate that you spend so many of your limited postings on ephemera. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.
Cue the sycophants who will applaud you no matter what you do…
Take it for whatever it’s worth, my husband, who doesn’t read this blog generally, read your posts on this past season’s episodes of Dr. Who and kept pestering me to ask if you’d put up another for the last episode. Obviously I found the posts interesting or I wouldn’t have pointed him to them in the first place; I like the fun stuff mixed in with the serious stuff.
Iska,
1) I think we can agree Jimmy uses those gifts you mentioned in a professional capacity at Catholic Answers. It can be argued that those who work at CA are employed in the full-time use of apologetic skills.
2) It seems to me to stretch charity to come to a blog of personal interest and lecture a man about not using his gifts well, when their zealous use is likely how you are aware of him in the first place.
3) Scorning leisure and respite from work is an unhealthy attitude, in my opinion.
4) I hope you don’t call me a sycophant. 🙂
Jimmy,
Obviously you can do whatever you want with your website. I personally think it’s a drag, though, that you spend so much time with stuff like Dr. Who, Deep Space Nine or Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (or whatever the heck sci-fi it is that you’re so enamored with), carb-free rice, etc. etc. You have a unique ability to do apologetics in layman’s terms. You’re uniquely not a seminary-trained pantywaist. The number of people who do what you do the way you do it in English could probably be counted on one hand. I find it unfortunate that you spend so many of your limited postings on ephemera. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.
Cue the sycophants who will applaud you no matter what you do…
Take it for whatever it’s worth, my husband, who doesn’t read this blog generally, read your posts on this past season’s episodes of Dr. Who and kept pestering me to ask if you’d put up another for the last episode. Obviously I found the posts interesting or I wouldn’t have pointed him to them in the first place; I like the fun stuff mixed in with the serious stuff.
Iska,
1) I think we can agree Jimmy uses those gifts you mentioned in a professional capacity at Catholic Answers. It can be argued that those who work at CA are employed in the full-time use of apologetic skills.
2) It seems to me to stretch charity to come to a blog of personal interest and lecture a man about not using his gifts well, when their zealous use is likely how you are aware of him in the first place.
3) Scorning leisure and respite from work is an unhealthy attitude, in my opinion.
4) I hope you don’t call me a sycophant. 🙂