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August 2013

August 31, 2013

“It Can Entrance You For a Moment…”

"Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address...

August 22, 2013

The Quotable Renshaw

One of this film critics' favorite quotable quotes comes from Roger Ebert: "A movie is...

February 2011

February 14, 2011

If Your House Were Burning Down…

From composer Ned Rorem’s introduction to Jean Cocteau’s book The Difficulty of Being... A literary...

January 2011

January 05, 2011

“… the best service anyone could render to art…”

A new quote for my collection of insights on faith and art Orson Welles: If...

September 2010

September 13, 2010

Christianity Today’s Knockout Interview with Marilynne Robinson

This is the most thrilling stuff I've read at Christianity Today in a while. Great...

June 2010

June 24, 2010

World Cup Pope

What does Pope Benedict XVI think of soccer? Now we know. And his insights give...

June 22, 2010

“…the most beautiful book in English…”

What book did C.S. Lewis call "almost the most beautiful book in English"? Thomas Traherne,...

June 19, 2010

Who’s right?

So... I stumbled onto these two quotes within a few seconds of one another... "In...

April 2010

April 27, 2010

To Savor or To Save?

E.B. White, in an interview with The New York Times in 1969, said: If the...

April 08, 2010

C.S. Lewis explains.

C.S. LEWIS: What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little...

December 2009

December 24, 2009

A Christmas Eve appeal

Every Christmas, it's a different verse that burns with new vitality for me. This year,...

March 2009

March 19, 2009

Pixar’s “Up” at Cannes; Pete Docter Talks Faith and Filmmaking

I'm happy to see Pixar's new film opening on the kind of platform that the...

December 2008

December 24, 2008

That’s The Spirit!

Roger Ebert: The Spirit is mannered to the point of madness. There is not a...

July 2008

July 22, 2008

Yancey: How C.S. Lewis shaped my faith and writing

Philip Yancey in CT: Lewis has taught me a style of approach that I try...

July 19, 2008

“We care for the environment precisely because God will create a new earth.”

If you ever overhear me muttering threats while I read Christian media, it's likely that...

June 2008

June 24, 2008

A Little Milton on a Monday Afternoon

My new friend Kelly Foster just emailed this to me. It's a quote from John...

June 05, 2008

The New Quotes Page!

Inspired by my friend Jen Zug, I decided it was time for a Quotes page....

May 2008

May 29, 2008

Happy Birthday, G.K. Chesterton!

When asked to list my ten Desert Island Books, I always include G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy....

December 2007

December 04, 2007

Hope

Thanks to Jim Janknegt for sharing this, from paragraph 35 of Pope Benedict's latest encyclical:...

November 2007

November 21, 2007

Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Art

I just spotted this fantastic quote about art on a friend's Facebook page, and thought...

September 2007

September 20, 2007

Long-title Specials: Fibbs on “Assassination”; a Wedding for Hurst; Flannery on the Church

The Brandon Fibbs Review of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford....

September 20, 2007

On Criticism

My good friend, Mike Demokowicz, a photographer and educator who has taught me a great...

May 2007

May 13, 2007

Your Deepest Impulse

Opus is meditating on a profound passage from The Screwtape Letters. And you can meditate...

April 2007

April 02, 2007

Are Movies Increasing Your “Capacity to See”?

At Long Pauses, Darren Hughes has posted a quote that I want to share with...

March 2007

March 06, 2007

More on Arcade Fire’s “Neon Bible”

Another arresting quote from the lead singer of Arcade Fire: “Central to the album," Win...

January 2007

January 29, 2007

“Bridge to Terabithia” and Author Katherine Paterson

Walden Media's upcoming adventure Bridge to Terabithia looks intriguing. I haven't read Paterson's work yet,...

January 23, 2007

Lynch, God, Termites

I just had to chuckle over this abrupt shift from one question to the next...

December 2006

December 19, 2006

Alfonso Cuarón: “Narrative is the Poison of Cinema”

Children of Men drops you smack dab in the middle of an apocalypse. You'd better...

September 2006

September 07, 2006

A Word from Frederick Buechner

The world speaks of the holy in the only language it knows, which is a...

September 07, 2006

A Word from Teilhard de Chardin

"By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and...