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Lifehouse: No Name Face (2000)
BY: David John Seel, Jr.
The cumulative impact of this record expresses the heart questions of security and significance that frame our longings for love and meaning.
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Spirituality and Pop Music - from Tori Amos to Lauryn Hill
BY: David John Seel, Jr.
From pop to hip-hop, Sanskrit to Scripture, popular culture has displayed a renewed spiritual consciousness.
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System of a Down: Toxicity (2001)
BY: David John Seel, Jr.
System of a Down are musically genre-bending—seeing metal as a malleable form.
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Emmylou Harris: Red Dirt Girl (2000)
BY: David John Seel, Jr.
This is music for those who have known loss: a divorce, a prodigal child, the death of a parent, the betrayal of friends, the collapse of a career, or the pain of chronic disease.
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Would Jesus Mosh? How Christian is Christian Heavy Metal?
BY: David John Seel, Jr.
What makes music or musical entertainment “Christian?” These are questions being raised within Christian entertainment itself and not simply by confused teachers and parents of adolescents.
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A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)
BY: Andrew H. Trotter, Jr.
The film is a powerful look at the life of John Nash, a Nobel Prize winning theorist who struggles with schizophrenia.
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The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)
BY: Andrew H. Trotter, Jr.
In The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese (the well-known director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas) has made a film pitting expectation against desire, the norms and presumptions of a society against the freedoms and loves of the individual.
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American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
BY: Andrew H. Trotter, Jr.
Heavy in its existential despair, American Beauty explores the relationship of death and art that twentieth-century painting has made its obsession.
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Changing Lanes (Roger Michell, 2002)
BY: Andrew H. Trotter, Jr.
Hollywood is not exactly known for films that explore the difficulty modern man has with concepts like repentance or forgiveness. Changing Lanes is a stunning exception.
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Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)
BY: Andrew H. Trotter, Jr.
Through a superb blend of social statement and political thriller, interest in the film spread primarily because of a shocking “secret” the plot contains, Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game became a social phenomenon.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
- Dorothy Parker
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This year spring came late to southern Minnesota, and when it arrived it brought chilly temperatures, cloudy skies, and lots of rain. Whether it is because of these factors or something entirely different I don't know, but 2013 has turned out to be The Year of the Morel. If you have never sampled these delicious mushrooms, you are in for a treat. We've found them on more than one walk in the woods, and so feel we have had a special opportunity to experience one of the wonders of creation.
Morels, goldfinches, a well crafted film, an iris bursting into bloom, a chance for an unhurried conversation in a safe place--such glimmers of hope help us flourish as persons in this broken world. These are the sort of things we are concerned with at Ransom. Thanks for visiting.
Denis & Margie Haack
Anita Gorder
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