If people are only reading one critic, they're missing the point. Sometimes he works through films in different ways. If it doesn't, they don't know what to do with it and they just throw it out. And movies so often don't fit into the boxes Christians have. And so they can't think about it.
Parks is excited about teaching other Christian writers to develop such a vocabulary.
In the first year of the Tollbooth, we took some writers who were genuinely not good and really turned them into fine writers, and I'm proud of that. In the meantime, the Tollbooth has created the OnFilm eGroup , which allows Christian critics and fans to share reviews, discuss opinions, and learn from each other. It's a good group. We don't get any of the silliness you sometimes see in online groups. I think it's done a lot for the people who read it.