Firefly Study Series – Introduction

I’ve been promising a study resource for the television series “Firefly” for a number of, well, years now and many (yes you Stephen) have even poked me occasionally to see where this resource was, and when I’d get time to complete it. I’d like to say that I’ve found the space now that I needed to get back into writing a little, and as a celebration of the new found energy I thought I’d actually get down to the business of writing the resource…

First of all I’ll upload a resource a friend of mine sent me a long while back to be a part of the resource, Toby Tan, a friend and theologian and youth ministry thinker and world traveler wrote this resource as a part of his reflections on Firefly after a conversation with me oh so long ago. I’ve only recently remembered that it was sitting here (oops). Check it out: Sergeant Reynolds and Captain Reynolds – Solidarity and Servant Leadership (pdf)

Secondly I’m impressed to see that there have been a lot of small mash up clips from the Firefly series and Serenity movie displayed on the Cowboy Jazz blog, the clips are incredibly well put together and could be used as devotional pieces alone, and I could see that many of them might be able to add to the discussion resource I’m piecing together now. The Cowboy Jazz blog has also written a few reflections on her faith and spirituality in dialogue with different episodes of Firefly that might be of interest to some of you out there. (ht Mary Hess over at Tensegrities)

Thirdly I’ll spend some time on the blog going through the series as the dvd pack publishes them (note originally the episode “The Train Job” was the pilot released on television after the executives decided that Serenity part 1 and 2 was too long). I figure I’ll go through it disk by disk addressing the episodes on each of the discs before I clean it up and piece it all together as a final pdf resource for use in your ministry and I’ll upload the final product as a booklet on DigitalOrthodoxy.com. Please give me your patience (if two or three years hasn’t been enough) as I might not get through them all in the next week… Perhaps I’ll do a disk a week, 4 disks, 4 weeks…

And finally, as I’m in a good mood I’ll finish off the resource with a study sheet based on the film “Serenity”

Then I can perhaps get back to writing some more Film Discussion Sheets and writing up more from series 1 and 2 of Joan of Arcadia and maybe start thinking about Dead Like Me.

I hope that you enjoy the series, and this makes you head back to the dvd pack and watch it all over again.

Episode 1 will be out in a minute…