Looking Closer
Who says Monday mornings are a drag?! I was minding my own business, getting some work done here at the office, when lo… I was blessed by a friend who sent me this link. (more…) Read more
Who says Monday mornings are a drag?! I was minding my own business, getting some work done here at the office, when lo… I was blessed by a friend who sent me this link. (more…) Read more
“Why was I… bored?” (more…) Read more
Walker Percy: In my last novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, I tried to show how, while truth should prevail, it is a disaster when only one kind of truth prevails at the expense of another. If only one kind of truth prevails, the abstract and technical truth of science, then nothing stands in the way of a demeaning of and a destruction of human life for what would appear to be reasonable short-term goals. It’s no accident that I think that... Read more
Having completed a long list of online interviews for Raven’s Ladder, I’ve challenged fans and friends at my Facebook Page to ask me questions that I haven’t seen on an interview before. (I’ve answered “What inspired you to write this series?” about 25 times.) So people are sending in questions. Some of them are interesting, some are hilarious. This has given me an idea… (more…) Read more
It was twenty years ago today… (more…) Read more
C.S. LEWIS: What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects — with their Christianity latent. (more…) Read more
I had no idea that the filmmaker Jafar Panahi had been arrested and imprisoned. But this report says that things are worse than that. Taherah Saeedi, the wife of film director Jafar Panahi,who was arrested on 2 March 2010, has published a report about her husband’s condition in solitary confinement that has rendered him immobile and under emotional stress. She stated that in the past, her husband has twice experienced severe spasms in his chest for which he was taken... Read more
It never fails. When I have my iTunes set to shuffle — hopping, skipping, and jumping through the 13,000 tracks I’ve assembled there — and the opening notes of a Radiohead song come on, I am immediately in a good mood. (more…) Read more
The Muppets were made for the viral video age. Here’s more proof… (more…) Read more
Striving to contradict the rumors that production of The Hobbit is in trouble, Guillermo Del Toro went ahead and made the big announcement today. (more…) Read more
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