Sometimes the simplest songs are best. I'm not thinking of simplistic music, the sort of mindless jingles that assault us in service of consumerist…
A One-Way Trip Into Space
“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new…
Listening to Critics: When Musicians Raise Questions About Faith (I)
Music not only nurtures our souls it speaks to the deepest issues of life. “I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you…
Not Your Average Comic Books
They are usually shelved in the teen section at your local library, or near the comic books at your local book store; but these…
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy, 2007)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008)
How Stories End If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.-Groucho Marx Three very different movies…
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity (Thomas C. Oden, 2007)
Out of Dark Africa...LightAfrica was long known in the West as the “Dark Continent.” The explorer Henry Stanley (of “Dr. Livingstone I presume” fame)…
Away We Go (Sam Mendes, 2009)
Co-written by Dave Eggers. Away We Go. Yup, co-writer on top. That was what the big block letters read on the marquee at the…
The Wonderful Freedom to Fail
Faith / Ordinary Life / Visual Art
Speaking at the 2009 Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) conference allowed me to attend some fascinating presentations. New York artist Makoto Fujimura, for…
Rock Docs: Films Speak Truth To Human Condition
What drives us to churn our human condition into a song? Life’s twists and turns have long been the inspiration for verse. Each of…
Listening to Music from Across the Globe
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of "world music"? Pygmies in Africa pounding on animal skins? Mariachi bands…