"The message here is not that when God calls, you have no choice. Rather, it is that vocation is more than just something you are asked to do; it is, as George Weigel aptly points out in his Letters to a Young Catholic, "something you are." Buffy fans know, as Buffy does, that her life would be a lot easier if she could just have a normal boyfriend, go to the mall and drink coffee at Starbuck's like everybody else. But she can't because she's the slayer. If she denies her identity, vampires don't get slain, and Sunnydale goes to hell (literally). She can't not be the slayer. Though God is not an explicit part of Buffy's calling, she cannot escape from the goodness inside of her." - Mossa, Mark, S.J. in "Buffy vs. Joan: A Vocational Smackdown."

Monday, February 19, 2007

Buffy and other Christian themes - What do you think?

Thus far we have explored the Christian theme of vocation as it applies and appears in the mega hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And this has only been an initial scratch on the surface. Surely there are other themes embedded throughout this series. What are they?


Let's continue to explore these themes as they appear in BTVS together. Let me know what further themes strike you.
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