Introduction:
If you find yourself flicking through the television channels this season, you might stumble across a relatively new program called Joan of Arcadia. The show is about an average, non-religious teenager with whom God decides to strike up a friendship, manifesting himself and herself in persons as varied as a TV anchorman to a cafeteria lunch lady. The show’s creator, Barbara Hall, has given the writers a list of 10 commandments. The third dictum is “God can never identify one religion as being right.” Time writer James Poniewozik comments: “This is probably an impossible rule to follow – some people believe in a God who is quite particular about which religion is right, and by the fourth episode God alludes to having told Noah to build the Ark. But mostly Arcadia espouses the little ‘c’ catholicism captured in its credits, which juxtapose images of the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Bob Dylan: as long as you believe there’s an answer blowin’ in the wind, you’re on the side of the angels.”
If you find yourself flicking through the television channels this season, you might stumble across a relatively new program called Joan of Arcadia. The show is about an average, non-religious teenager with whom God decides to strike up a friendship, manifesting himself and herself in persons as varied as a TV anchorman to a cafeteria lunch lady. The show’s creator, Barbara Hall, has given the writers a list of 10 commandments. The third dictum is “God can never identify one religion as being right.” Time writer James Poniewozik comments: “This is probably an impossible rule to follow – some people believe in a God who is quite particular about which religion is right, and by the fourth episode God alludes to having told Noah to build the Ark. But mostly Arcadia espouses the little ‘c’ catholicism captured in its credits, which juxtapose images of the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Bob Dylan: as long as you believe there’s an answer blowin’ in the wind, you’re on the side of the angels.”
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