Freedom, Debt, and the Gospel in Blue Lights (2025)

Martin, J. (2025, June 20). Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure.

• Discusses how a brief conversation in the crime drama Blue Lights (2023-) about debt invites theological reflection and consideration of three posted fundamental human freedoms.

“If these are in fact fundamental freedoms going back (at least as far as what is documented/evidence) to our ancestors’ earliest decisions to form and interact with communities and societies, then constraints on or violations of these freedoms have important implications for what it means to be human. Implications born out in season two of the acclaimed police drama Blue Lights (2023-) in a manner that parallels Jesus’ ministry as recorded and recalled in the gospels.”