Looking Closer
A long time ago, on a Web site far far away… I almost thought this was serious. Then I clicked on “How to Really Be Saved.” Read more
A long time ago, on a Web site far far away… I almost thought this was serious. Then I clicked on “How to Really Be Saved.” Read more
News from the house of Wolfe… Image journal and the Department of English at Seattle Pacific University established the Levertov Award to honor one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. Levertov, who spent her last years in Seattle , embraced the landscape and culture of the Pacific Northwest. Levertov’s identity as a Christian believer—a pilgrim whose faith was inextricably entwined with doubt—became another important facet of her work, particularly in her later poetry. The Levertov Award is given annually to... Read more
Dante’s Inferno. Made in 1911. And it has better special effects than anything you’ll see this year. (more…) Read more
Time to resurrect this post, if only to point out how lame the year 2005 is when it comes to movies in U.S. theaters. (Notice how carefully I said that. Elsewhere in the world, there are, no doubt, amazing films being revealed, films that U.S. distributors don’t understand and won’t let you see.) The soon-to-be-renamed Arts and Faith Film Critics Circle haven’t nominated much of anything for consideration at the end of the year, and it’s already April. Can you... Read more
Let’s hear it for Coma Guy!! Read more
This review was originally published at Christianity Today on March 11, 2005. – A particularly reliable source once said, “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” When he said this, he was referring to children like Damian. Damian is the young hero of Millions, and you’ve never encountered a hero quite like him. Unlike the Bart Simpsons and Malcolms in the middle of most family entertainment, Damian... Read more
I’ve been reading about this project for years, it seems like. But the momentum is building, and we may finally get to see this amazing work of fan filmmaking…. Read more
Ken Morefield examines the outrageously popular saga, and considers how it plays to evangelical “appetites.” For most readers who are not evangelical Christians (and for many of us who are), the representation of reality in the Left Behind series can come across as oddly distorted. I have adopted the term “Evangelical Pornography” to describe the Left Behind franchise because its methods of representing its characters, particularly those who differ from its target audience, fit the description of what psychoanalyst Louise... Read more
All marriages are broken. We’re broken people, and when we commit to each other, for better or worse, we are guaranteed that there will be difficult — sometimes severely painful — times. How we respond to those trials will depend largely on our priorities and our beliefs. Am I in this for my own personal satisfaction? Or am I in this to give myself to the other person as a living sacrifice? When I made those sacred vows, did I... Read more
“Christianity has just begun its move into [popular] culture here,” says Pastor Enoch Lam. “The hostility and the misunderstanding have softened – but a lot of people have very sensitive nerves.” The story’s in Weekend Standard, “China’s Business Newspaper.” … Just as born-again fervor gripped Hollywood in the form of Mel Gibson’s visceral – and very profitable – The Passion of the Christ, Hong Kong has its own unlikely box office hit with The Days of Noah, a film about... Read more
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