Others Thoughts on Blue Like Jazz

The movie adaptation of Donald Miller's very popular Blue Like Jazz just came out last week.  I know of several people who have read this book and been enamored.  From what I heard, though, there were many points of deviation from orthodox (read "biblical") Christianity. Eleanor Barkhorn's review at The Atlantic suggests that the movie version may be an even further deviation.  She writes, "Unfortunately, in its attempt to be a more honest voice of evangelical Christianity, Blue Like Jazz the movie ends up saying barely anything at all. It tries to navigate a middle course between mainstream Hollywood and mainstream evangelical movie-making, and in the process loses everyone. The film doesn't show skeptics anything distinctive about Christianity. And it tells believers not to share what they know, but instead to apologize for it."  If true, this widely misses the mark of Christian belief.  

I came across an interesting review of the book this morning written by Mark Coppenger, if you are interested in some of the difficulties he identified in the book.