The Firefly ship Serenity For a preacher who loves to mine contemporary culture (that ephemeral thing) for theological nuggets, the late TV series “Firefly” represents a rare gift. Each of the all-too-brief fifteen episodes and the movie “Serenity” based upon it offer a number of lines in which the perceptive theologian can find Christian truth. (You just need to have your ears wide open, and your brown coat on.) Here I would like to recall two of them, both of them much needed Firefly insights for believers who strive to remain faithful to Jesus Christ in the midst of an increasingly secular world. The first comes from a conversation (make that “interrogation”), in which Malcolm Reynolds, the captain of ...
