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October 2007

October 06, 2007

A Cinematic Change…

Thanks to Alex Carpenter for pointing out this video. Jeff Skoll made his fortune ($2...

October 05, 2007

As if they couldn't get any better…

The Colorado Rockies have certainly provided some exciting moments for this year's MLB playoffs and...

October 03, 2007

And for something completely different…

Manohla Dargis, a film critic for the New York Times, has a review of an...

October 03, 2007

On a Lighter Note…

September 2007

September 26, 2007

A Dark Valley…

This year, two major films will examine the effects of the Iraq War on American...

September 20, 2007

Heroes…

NBC just keeps the hits rolling. Returning prime time successes include the aforementioned Friday Night...

September 20, 2007

Friday Nights…

One of my favorite television programs from last season is Friday Night Lights. Despite poor...

September 13, 2007

Nature AND Nuture

Any serious sports fan simply must be familiar with Michael Lewis, the author of two...

September 13, 2007

Christianity and the Social Crisis: Part 2

Here is my response to the second chapter of Christianity and the Social Crisis, "The...

September 11, 2007

Responses to Christianity and the Social Crisis: Part 1

Corbin Boekhaus, also a recent graduate of the Wake Forest University Divinity School, begins the...

September 11, 2007

Responses to Christianity and the Social Crisis: An Introduction

Walter Rauschenbusch's classic text, Christianity and the Social Crisis was recently re-released to celebrate its...

September 10, 2007

Battlescars

The death toll of suicide bombers and the weekly body count/injury report of the war...

September 10, 2007

HBO: Homogenous Box Office?

The new television season is fast approaching. Week one of the NFL is nearly in...

September 06, 2007

Are You Ready for Some Football?!

To help celebrate the upcoming NFL season, which starts in just a few hours as...

August 2007

August 29, 2007

The Ultimate What If…

Films are the great hypothetical (forgive the Shaquille O'Neal analogy). We can easily ask of...

August 27, 2007

Better Late Than Never…

I am speaking here of both my review of God's Warriors and the program itself. ...

August 20, 2007

The Religions Will Be Televised…

This week, CNN is devoting 6 hours of its prime-time programming to a discussion of...

August 19, 2007

$40 Million: Take Two

WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS POST UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE, $40 MILLION...

August 19, 2007

$40 Million and Two Movies

Lately, I have been putting together a syllabus for a course I want to teach...

August 16, 2007

Life on Pause…

Last fall I eagerly awaited the release of Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep. I...

August 11, 2007

The Threat of Nonbeing

How can a filmmaker visualize scent? How does a director convey odor? The senses of...

August 03, 2007

All About the Music?

A couple of months ago, Alan Ackridge, a friend and youth minister in North Carolina,...

July 2007

July 30, 2007

The Ripken Way…

On Sunday, two of baseball's greatest, classiest players were inducted into the Major League Baseball...

July 29, 2007

SUCCESS…

I doubt that any group of filmmakers have been under the amount of pressure to...

July 26, 2007

The Spiritual Simpsons

So here they are, on the eve of The Simpsons Movie's release, my top three...

July 25, 2007

The Definitive Guides

While Mark I. Pinsky's religious dialogue with The Simpsons is certainly intriguing and Chris Turner's...

July 24, 2007