There’s a scene in the middle of Gus Van Sant’s Milk that, for me, captures the heart of the movie. The apartment Harvey Milk…
Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
Last fall my friend Adam was discussing The Counterfeiters with a German grad student, who asked, “Why is it you’re watching so many German…
Home (Marilynne Robinson, 2008)
No Place At Home I never finished reading Marilynne Robinson’s earlier novel, Gilead (2006), though I always intended to get back to it sometime.…
Basic Questions on Alternative Medicine (Gary P. Stewart, 1998)
Books / Pluralistic World / Spirituality / Work and Rest
Place yourself in this situation. You have been told you have an illness for which conventional medicine does not have a known or desirable…
Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? (Preston Jones, 2006)
In 2006 Preston Jones, a contributing editor to Critique, published a book with Greg Graffin called Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant?…
Faith At The Edge: A Book for Doubters (Robert Wennberg, 2009)
When God Seems Far Away: There have been times when I have sensed God's presence and grace in a way that seems to me…
Funny People (Judd Apatow, 2009)
Apatow and Aristotle on Friendship I went into the theater expecting to love Funny People. I’d been pleasantly surprised by the way Judd Apatow’s…
Interpol, Our Love to Admire (2007)
Recorded at the infamous Electric Lady Studios this is the third album from the New York based Interpol; the first on Capitol (a departure…
Joyeux Noel! Great Music for the Celebration of Our Lord’s Birthday
Christmas, the time of magic, the time of mystery. In it’s present manner, surely it’s a bit much sometimes. The pervasive materialism, the shallow…
A Deadly Misunderstanding (Mark Siljander, 2008)
PRAYING WITH MUSLIMS IN JESUS’ NAME Christians and non-Christians often find “bridges” into each others lives through aspects of the culture which they enjoy--films,…