In a time of pandemic, very few people have been going to the movies at a cinema. The animated feature which won the Oscar, and I suspect in a runaway vote, was the film called ‘Soul’ that not accidentally came out on Christmas day. Wit e waited and watched it at home in April. As it turns out the movie is about ‘soul’ in two senses of the term— it’s about the ultimate soul music, namely jazz, one of the... Read more
This slender volume records the dialogue and Q and A that took place at the last Greer-Heard Forum at New Orleans Baptist Seminary, and includes a helpful introduction by Bob Stewart of that faculty on worldview and its importance. There were some other interesting papers by Doug Moo, Edith Humphrey, Kevin Vanhoozer and others which unfortunately Westminster-John Knox Press didn’t see fit to include in this volume, and that was a considerable mistake. What one mostly has is Tom Wright’s... Read more
Q. 1 When is Cinco de Mayo? Q. 2 When is Cinco de Mayo in 2o21? Q. 3 What is Cinco de Mayo in Spanish? And my personal favorite— Q. 4— Does Cinco de Mayo have to do with Mayonnaise? Read more
I do declare, I’ve used all of these phrases except maybe one. If you need to upgrade your Southern Lexicon, this little exercise will help you. If you try to speak Southern without such help (and there are thousands of you who have moved to the South in the last 20 years), well…. that dog won’t hunt. Your phoniness will be quite apparent. BW3 https://www.southernliving.com/travel/southern-sayings Read more
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This movie quite rightly deserves the three Oscars it got for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Director in a year of some pretty remarkable films, pandemic or no pandemic. Francis McDormand is a national treasure, the winner of 3 best acting Oscars, two Emmys, 3 Golden Globes, and I could go on. Apart from Meryl Streep she is the only currently working actress that is in the same stratosphere as Meryl. But watching Francis is by no means the... Read more
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