This film will be shown in Lexington on Thursday October 11th, and will be followed by a Q+A time with the producer Robert Orlando and myself. It is tenatively scheduled for the Movie Tavern theater just off Richmond Road at 7 p.m. If this changes I will do an update, but you may assume this is correct. BW3 Read more

In the wake of the interesting Village Green Forum in Christianity Today’s September issue in which all three participants (Stephen Mansfield, Mollie Zieglar-Hemingway and Richard Mouw) stressed that there is nothing wrong at all with a Christian voting for a Mormon for President (though they also counseled that it’s always a matter of choosing one imperfect candidate over another imperfect candidate) they also went on to add the following reminders– Mansfield: “In the 2012 election voting for Mitt Romney– yes... Read more

Phenomenology is the study of how things appear, not necessarily how they are. On any given day on earth, the sun appears to set on the horizon, often in spectacular fashion. In fact of course, what is happening is the earth is rotating on its axis. What makes the sunset spectacular in some cases is pollution, dust or soot clouds more evident at the horizon make the sunsets more red or orange, and of course there is the further illusion... Read more

Pikeville is a long way from Lexington, hard on the West Virginia border near the Big Sandy (and the Tug) River. Most everyone in America at one time or another has heard of the phrase ‘like the Hatfields and the McCoys’ as a euphemism for an ongoing, festering family feud, or have even used the phrase ‘the real McCoy’, not knowing where it probably came from. Well the McCoys were from the Kentucky side of the river, not so the... Read more

There haven’t been many sci-fi thrillers of late to write home about. O.K. Super 8 was not terrible, but that was a while ago. Nothing as rich or stark or dark as Blade Runner has shown up in a long time. We seem to prefer cuddly aliens or angst ridden ones that deserve our empathy, these days. Looper however is a different kind of film. A time travel film, a back from the future film. The basic premise of this... Read more

A History Channel Documentary from the Future: Beatles 3000 — powered by Cracked.com Read more

Two big things happened for me in 1995– I moved to Lexington Ky. and Chipper Jones became the everyday All Star third baseman for the Braves. I have watched his whole career, and there is a reason he’s a first ballot Hall of Famer. In an age of juiced players, Chipper always did it the right way, the hard way. The following is Jayson Stark’s wonderful summary of what Chipper has achieved as an offensive star. Hardly anyone has been... Read more

Here is an excellent overview of many of the Biblical and Greco-Roman and church historical sites in Turkey (and lots more besides). The music is a bit annoying, but watch the pictures anyway. Read more

I like families as much as the next person, indeed, I love my own birth and marriage families a lot. I’ve been married for over 35 years, and I see that as a good thing. And in a world where there are a lot of dysfunctional families, broken families single parent families, extended families, it is understandable that there might be a colossal over-reaction to this broken reality by conservative religious folk who highly value the physical family. This sort... Read more

Thought for the Day: ‘If you’re all wrapped up in yourself, it’s bound to be a small package.’ Maxie Dunnam Read more