The Da Vinci Code movie is on its way. Are you ready to blog knowledgeably about it?
Unbelievers (and not a few Christians) may scoff at us for taking The Da Vinci Code phenomenon so seriously. But pop culture is powerful, and although we surely have more productive things to do, setting the record straight and offering a reasoned defense of the faith and correcting historical inaccuracies are also important, even when the subject is fiction.
Christian bloggers can create a blog swarm around the upcoming movie. As someone who is learning more every day about the importance of using relevant keywords for search engine placement and anticipating hot topics and search trends, I know the more blogging you and I do about the movie, the more we’ll draw readers looking for online information.
Commit to studying your Bible if you’re not doing so already, read early church history (see articles) and articles on The Da Vinci Code written by other Christians, and start publicly defending what you believe. James White, my favorite Christian apologist, writes:
If you haven’t read the book (unlike more than twenty million others), you may have only heard bits and pieces about its blatant attacks upon the Christian faith. I have had the opportunity of addressing the book in a number of contexts, and will continue doing so in an attempt to equip believers to respond to the onslaught. But I would like to document some of the major errors and the way in which they are presented by Dan Brown here on the blog. I encourage you to take this information and be prepared to use this opportunity to present a strong case for the Christian faith.
Despite its questionable literary merit, the book was a runaway bestseller. Join me as I attempt to generate a blog swarm. [Note: The swarm won't be immediate; I just want bloggers to start building archive posts so they'll have a repository of information as the movie premiere approaches. Then we'll generate a series of swarms.] God blessed us with this new medium for a reason. 
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(Image from Sony Pictures)
Update: For those of you wondering, I’ve delayed the Harry Potter articles I’m working on for a few days to read Looking for God in Harry Potter, sent to me by an LBC reader (Thanks, Rae!). Hopefully the first article will be posted at Townhall.com sometime next week.
You may recall that I mentioned doing more writing outside the blog. Aside from the Potter articles, a review of Raising Boys Without Men, and an op-ed about this panel discussion, I’m working on a story for the December issue of Biblical Worldview Magazine (and will likely speak at their conference in May 2006) and may review books for Christianity Today. It’s amazing that after I blogged about being bored and burned out by politics, opportunities to write about faith materialized. There’s no such thing as a coincidence, of course.
If posting is light, it means I’m working on stories and/or with clients and building my business. Some readers e-mail, wanting to know details about why posting is light. They’re interested to know what I’m busy doing. Others either don’t care or say I blog about myself too much anyway. Insomuch as it is my blog… 
It’s a good thing I don’t try to please all of the people all of the time, eh?
Update II: But it’s only fiction!
Amphipolis is logging errors from selected chapters. Solid.
Gary Burger at New Media Ministries has written a series of (extensive) articles on The Da Vinci Code.
