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Not Fit for Dinner: Placing #ObamaInHistory“We can disagree about the connections made on the President biography pages, but we we would be mistaken to think that Obama is ahistorical and is leading America in a past-less present.”
The Televangelists: In Praise of Sherlock & its Co-Creator Steven Moffat“Here, then, is a brief tour through Moffat’s oeuvre of awesomeness.”
Sacred Space: What’s Wrong with Videogames in Church?“My objection to video games in church boils down to what makes a church.”
Grace Notes: My Bloody Valentine“Few bands can claim to have altered the musical landscape, much less charted out an entirely new landscape.”
Mixed Signals: How to Make a Proper Apology“Learning to make a proper apology is one of those indispensable life skills that we all need but few of us were trained to deliver appropriately.”
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Killer Poet
Posted on April 30, 2008 | 3 CommentsKiller Poet sounds like an interesting documentary: “When I look at JJ, it makes me believe in the possibility of redemption.” -
Confessions of a First-Time American Idol Viewer
Posted on April 25, 2008 | No CommentsCarissa Smith just watched her first episode of American Idol... and she's really into it. -
Expelled and Fairness
Posted on April 23, 2008 | No CommentsCinematical blogger Eric D. Snider doesn’t like Expelled, but nonetheless he makes a plea for accuracy and fairness in how the secular media covers it. -
R.E.M. on Faith
Posted on April 22, 2008 | No CommentsThey may be the band famous for “Losing My Religion,” but the members of R.E.M. speak candidly about their faith background and how it influences their music in this NPR interview. -
Expelled: Anyone Listening? Anyone? Anyone?
Posted on April 18, 2008 | 9 CommentsCarrissa Smith may not be as crazy about Expelled as you are. -
Forgiving Willoughby
Posted on April 14, 2008 | 9 CommentsThe recent Masterpiece Theatre version of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility gave the harshest portrayal I’ve ever seen of the character Willoughby, who seduces, impregnates, and abandons a young girl. This leads me to ponder two things: (1) Why, in our era of “tolerance,” does Willoughby suddenly get the shaft?; and (2) Is it important for us, as Christians, to forgive fictional characters? -
Trouble in Narnia
Posted on April 7, 2008 | 41 CommentsThe more I hear about the upcoming Prince Caspian film (to be released May 16), the more worried I am about it. First, there was director Andrew Adamson’s promise (clearly supposed to excite us) that the movie would be “battles all the way through.” Then there was the screenwriters’ post on the official film blog indicating that they would be exploring the psychological difficulties faced by the Pevensie children as they deal with the transition from being Kings and Queens in Narnia to being schoolchildren in England. Blech. -
Slings and Arrows, Smells and Bells
Posted on April 3, 2008 | 6 CommentsOver the past couple of years, with the aid of Netflix, I've been working my way through the Canadian television series Slings and Arrows. The show focuses on the on-stage and off-stage lives of the New Burbage Festival, a sort of fictionalized version of the Stratford Festival in Western Ontario. In real life and on the show, the Festival's main fare is Shakespeare, and each season of Slings of Arrows centers around a production of a Shakespearean tragedy: Hamlet (Season 1), Macbeth (Season 2), and King Lear (Season 3). -
Anne Rice: “My Trust in My Lord”
Posted on March 26, 2008 | No CommentsAnne Rice: “My Trust in My Lord” -”Look: I believe in Him. It’s that simple and that complex,” writes the author of vampire fiction and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. -
A Raisin in the Sun: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
Posted on March 21, 2008 | 3 CommentsIn her debut post, Carissa Smith finds a meditation on grace alongside P. Diddy.