Into the Dragon’s Den

I’ve never quite worked out whether BBC2’s Dragon’s Den is so-called because the particular business people involved have fiery temperaments or because they are sitting on large amounts of gold that they have ruthlessly acquired by raiding the assets of vulnerable humans. Whatever the rationale for the name, more of the investment ideas are met with a snort of flame than a chest full of doubloons.

So, with that sobering thought in mind, here’s an investment proposal for your dragonesque consideration. Right now you receive two email thoughts a week from LICC. Come May we’d also like to offer them as podcasts and we’d like to add some regular extra material that not only goes a bit deeper but explains the principles and sources we’ve used to come to our conclusions. And that we hope will enrich your own reading of the Bible and your own engagement with culture. We’d also like to do some webcasts. Some will simply be filmed discussions about key issues, some will be two to three minute encounters of the YouTube kind that you might use in a housegroup or a church service. And some, we hope, could be the kind of thing that you might even pop on your office computer screen for your colleagues.

We think that these new formats have the potential to increase the reach of our ideas to new audiences across the world and help people like you share those ideas in fresh ways. Still, this particular idea needs some investment to fly. Supporters have generously given us a new server and the lion’s share of the web re-design costs but we need £10,000 for the camera, rig, editing hardware, accessories and training to start producing the film material.

Of course, we can’t promise you a direct financial return on your investment – how do you measure changed hearts and transformed lives? But we do know that the Lord loves a cheerful giver and we can promise to seek to use your investment wisely and prayerfully. Please help get this creative initiative airborne if you can. Or if you appreciate the emails you already receive, you might consider supporting us regularly by becoming a Friend of LICC. We’d be very grateful and so, we trust, will many others.

Mark Greene

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