The above is a screen capture from The God Child Came, a pageant featuring music written by UFO cultist Gabriel of Urantia. It’s the campy-cosmic tale of a young woman (played by one of Gabriel’s daughters) in search of the true meaning of Christmas.
If you like “so bad it’s good” cinema, you’re in for a treat. You can check it out for yourself below.
And you can read more about the show on the Failed State Update website.
You’re welcome.
This is the final issue of the Failed State Update newsletter for the year 2021. Here are some of the stories that made it onto the website in the past week:
Features
The conspiracy cinema of Tom “cTom” Charley: “He overworked us, didn’t pay us, and acted like a crazy person.” (Dec. 22)
Timothy Leary's neoliberal outer space migration fixation: On the origins of the private space race (Dec. 20)
Reports
Merry UFO CosmoCult Christmas! Gabriel of Urantia's 'The Christ Child Came' (Dec. 24)
Mike Elk on the 21st century labor movement and unrecognized general strike: Society’s collapsing, join a union (or start one)! (Dec. 23)
News
SHOCKER: GOP operatives behind Kanye West spoiler campaign: 'Sunday Service' doesn't count as mass, either (Dec. 17)
While you’re at it, be sure to check out this photo essay by friend of the site/Pale Horse Rider author Mark Jacobson and photographer James Hamilton. Titled “The Spirits of the Season, Then and Now,” it says more about this time of the year than I’m able to (or willing to).
Me, I’m already looking forward to the end of 2022.
— Lenny