Articles in the Headline Category
Posted in Headline, Literature on 1 December 2008
Carissa Smith finds little to do with evolution and a lot to do with truth in Fred Chappell’s 1989 novel.
When a colleague recently loaned me a book, telling me it was about a high school teacher in hot water over teaching evolution, I wasn’t too excited. Wasn’t one Inherit the Wind enough? However, once I started reading, I discovered that Fred Chappell’s 1989 novel Brighten the Corner Where You Are has none of the pompous bluster of Inherit the Wind; it’s not a chest-thumping ode to “truth” and “scientific objectivity.” In fact, rather than dwelling on whether Darwin was right or wrong, the novel is much more interested in exploring a certain Pontius Pilate’s question: “What is truth?”
Chappell, a North Carolina writer, is both a poet and a novelist, but he’s also clearly a student of tall tales. Brighten the Corner Where You Are opens with high school teacher Joe Robert Kirkman telling his hunting buddies of the fearsome “devil-possum,” who is “black and yellow polka-dotted with long ugly claws and teeth and has got a face like a little old man with whiskers and mustaches and muttonchop sideburns.” Later that night, Joe Robert finds himself face-to-face with this beast he thought he had invented, and he finds himself reconsidering: “One trouble was that he had described his patchwork terror without truly imagining it, merely flinging silly words about. He hadn’t the least thought what it would actually be like to see the beast . . .”
Posted in Featured, Film, General Culture, Headline on 26 November 2008
Ben Bartlett says redemption isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Posted in Featured, General Culture, Headline, Podcast, Technology, Television on 25 November 2008
Rich and Ben discuss the cultural phenomenon known as Black Friday, argue over a canceled TV show as metaphor for Romans 7, and discuss the implications of living in an iPhone Culture.
Posted in Featured, Film, Headline on 24 November 2008
Carissa Smith finds a lot to like about a movie many Christians would love to hate.
Posted in Featured, Headline, Technology on 21 November 2008
Richard Clark eats some of his words.
Posted in Featured, Headline, Technology on 20 November 2008
Richard Clark’s take on the (not so?) revolutionary on the iPhone.
Posted in Featured, Film, Headline, Literature, Podcast, Politics, Television on 19 November 2008
Ben and Rich return with a new format and a bit of a vengeance.
Posted in Featured, Headline, Television on 17 November 2008
David Dunham relates to Christian Slater. This won’t happen again.
Posted in Featured, Headline, Television on 14 November 2008
David Dunham explores the nature of sin on television.
Posted in Featured, Headline, Politics on 12 November 2008
Richard Clark hopes for the best.










