{"id":166,"date":"2010-05-24T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/05\/157-lost.html"},"modified":"2010-05-24T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T15:20:38","slug":"157-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/05\/157-lost.html","title":{"rendered":"#157 <i>Lost<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" height=\"299\" alt=\"lostfinale2.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/lost\/lostfinale2.JPG\" width=\"531\" \/><\/span>Christians love <em>Lost <\/em>like they love <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/04\/148-jack-bauer.html\">24<\/a><\/em>.&nbsp;They&#8217;re currently mourning the finale and&nbsp;discussing it with anyone who will sit still. They loved&nbsp;its arresting portrayal of journey and&nbsp;American folk eschatology&nbsp;but&nbsp;feel it&nbsp;lacked a solid worldview, to their chagrin. Christians love a solid worldview.<\/p>\n<p>They object to the Universalist belief system they say is the overarching philosophy but its talk of the &#8220;next life&#8221; and the struggle for redemption made this series irresistible to Christians. Right now there is surely a book on how to find Jesus in &#8220;Lost&#8221; being rushed together by Zondervan or something.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" height=\"367\" alt=\"flannery.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/lost\/flannery.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/span><font><em>(Jacob the immortal protector reads <\/em>Everything That Rises Must Converge.<em> Oh so rife with allegory!)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians love &#8220;Lost&#8221; like they love &#8220;24.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#157 Lost - Stuff Christian Culture Likes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/05\/157-lost.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#157 Lost - Stuff Christian Culture Likes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Christians love &quot;Lost&quot; 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