Medium

So, what do you believe?

• Is the spirit world close enough that physical individuals who are sensitive enough can have interactions with those in the spiritual world? That's the basic premise of the TV show Medium.
• Or is Medium just good drama, a ghost story that is fantasy and entertainment, but impossible in reality.

Seems to me that our answers may have some relationship to our beliefs about God. What do you believe about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit?

• Are God, Jesus, and the Spirit close enough that people living in our physical world -- who are sensitive to them -- can have meaningful interactions? Can we have conversations with them -- hearing them as well as speaking to them?
• Or is the Bible just good literature, fantasy and entertainment, but just impossible in reality.

Belief in the reality of the spirit world was very strong in Biblical times. The interactions with and the effects of spirits were real -- in fact Jesus had conversations with evil spirits and cast them out of people.

When mankind became so "smart" that we won't believe anything we cannot scientifically prove, we began dismissing the spirit world -- and with it much of what the Bible teaches.

If Post-Modernism, which basically rejects that everything can be explained by scientific logic and embraces mystery, helps us accept the spiritual realm as real in relation to God and his kingdom, it can be a very good thing. And maybe Medium can help us challenge our thinking about the spiritual.