C. S. Lewis’s Great Divorce is getting made into a movie! That symbolic/visionary/satirical/fantasy of a bus trip from Hell to a too-solid Heaven would seem to be hard to render in a film, but that’s part of what makes the prospect interesting. The writer tapped
A major victory in the war against terrorism and in the war of vengeance for the 9/11 attacks: Osama bin Laden, the long-hunted al-Qaeda leader and chief architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, was killed by U.S. forces Sunday
The readings in church last Sunday included this passage from John 20: 19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and
The big social event of the year in Washington, D.C., is last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which is known as the “prom” for the journalism/Hollywood/political complex. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post feels guilty about what it has become: The fun begins, appropriately
Is it a good idea to publish EVERYTHING that a good author wrote? His notes, scraps, unfinished projects, and what he never intended for publication because it wasn’t good enough? I have my doubts, but it appears that we are getting virtually everything from C.
When Americans have to pay $60 to fill their cars up with gas, they usually aren’t going to vote for the incumbent president. And yet, who is there to run against him? Mitt Romney? Newt Gingrich? Donald Trump? I can’t see Christian conservatives rallying behind
I grew up in Oklahoma, right in tornado alley. We didn’t have a basement or a cellar so when the sirens blew we would get in the car and drive through the wind, often us kids still in our pajamas, to the church basement. When
Rev. David Wilkerson, a pioneer in youth and urban ministry who founded Teen Challenge and wrote The Cross & the Switchblade, was killed in a car wreck. The pastor of Times Square Church in New York City, he was 79. Rev. Wilkerson was successful in reaching
For Lent I took up once again John Kleinig’s Grace Upon Grace: Spirituality for Today. That has to be one of the most helpful books I have ever read. I have been a Christian for a long time, and I am not unconversant when it
President Obama has released his birth certificate, showing that he was, in fact, born in Hawaii and is thus constitutionally eligible to be President. One would think this would put the birther theories to rest, but already it appears that they are unfalsifiable, that no
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