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October 2021

October 22, 2021

Mass Effect: What the Movie Mass Says About Grief and Forgiveness

Mass, opening nationally Oct. 22, isn’t always easy to watch. But then again, few worthwhile...

May 2019

May 10, 2019

How Do You Respond to Unspeakable Hate? With Forgiveness, a New Documentary Says.

I was driving to Denver when I heard about another local school shooting--the fourth in...

April 2019

April 15, 2019

Notre Dame’s Fire Was Horrible. But We Can Find Hope There, Too

The fire in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is dying down now. No one knows...

April 10, 2019

Amazing Grace is a Messy Masterpiece

Singer Aretha Franklin was at her peak in 1972. She’d recorded more than 20 albums,...

June 2016

June 03, 2016

Is Christian Music Too Happy?

You can't be bummed and be Christian. Or, at least, that might be your takeaway...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

X-Files: Signs of Promise

Much has been written about the greatness of The X-Files—how the original series revolutionized television,...

November 2015

November 09, 2015

What’s America’s Favorite Pastime? Religion.

The United States is growing more secular. According to data released earlier this month by...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

How the World’s Worst Movie is Technically Christian

I have a soft spot in my heart (and possibly on the brain) for bad movies....

July 2015

July 10, 2015

To Be Or Not To Be? That’s the Question for the Christian Movie Genre

"Have you seen God's Not Dead yet?" An elderly gentleman at my gym asks me...

July 01, 2015

The Spiritual Wind of Jazz Artist Kirk Whalum

Christian music, like Christianity itself, is a many-faceted thing. It encompasses Handel's Messiah and "Amazing...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

Fifty Shades? Religious Groups Color New Movie Just Plain Bad

I'm scheduled to attend a screening of Fifty Shades of Grey tonight. Can't say I'm...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Should Churches Be Movie Houses, Too?

Have you heard of the movie Hoovey? Probably not, I'm guessing. Hoovey is a little...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

Entertaining Churches, Preachy Movies

I had breakfast with an old friend of mine yesterday morning. He’d done some work...