Mr Deity

So, as you'll know, I love Mr Deity. But this episode in particular, Mr Deity and the Book, I found both hilarious and poignant.

After studying Advanced Workshop, and in partiular my essay on Joshua and Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion and retrieval, I've been reinvigorated in my search to rediscover the Bible after being wounded by faith, life and the text. Mr Deity indicates many of the themes that I find myself wrestling with, and offers are somewhat anarchic solution - 'Let's Job the guy'. Not necessarily the non-violent path I would have preferred, but probably more humourous, let's face it.

I've been watching Mr Deity for a couple of months now and thought it was about time I shared it here, if you've not seen Mr Deity already.

I came in on episode 3, Mr Deity and the Light, which is just hilarious. But the first episode is great, and obviously, being episode 1, is the place to start.

As I understand it Brian Dalton, the writer and director of Mr Deity who also plays Mr Deity himself, wrote the first episode as a personal response to the Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004. And then, realising that he'd hit on a cracking theme, carried on making episodes of Mr Deity. I've just watched episode 9, Mr Deity and the Book, through the Mr Deity podcast feed in iTunes (or you may like to go to the podcast RSS feed), but it's not available on YouTube yet so I can't put it in here.

Anyway, here is Mr Deity episode 1, Mr Deity and the Evil.