In today’s Agape Press feature article (published by the American Family Association), Ed Vitagliano contrasts Randy Alcorn’s view of the End of the Spear controversy with mine as articulated here and here. In his article, A Blunted Spear: Controversy Over Film Challenges Evangelical Community, Vitagliano observes: “If Christians intend to continue using the arts as a means of communicating the Gospel, they must begin by carefully thinking through the Scriptural principles involved. Everyone might not agree with Phillips’ position, but at least he has thought it through.”

In opposition to the the morally destructive view of the evangelical cultural syncretists (as well as the defeatist view of the cultural retreatists), The San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival and The Christian Filmmakers Academy aspire to advance the cause of distinctively and presuppositionally biblical ethics in the important medium of film. It is our view that God is concerned with the means as well as the ends when it comes to film production, and that the Bible is an all-sufficient guide (Van Til called it a “sourcebook” rather than a textbook) on the issue of cultural ethics.