Hollywood is not exactly known for films that explore the difficulty modern man has with concepts like repentance or forgiveness. Changing Lanes is a…
American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
American Beauty, the first effort of director Sam Mendes and writer Alan Ball, is a remarkable production reminiscent of the best-made films of the…
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)
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…
A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)
We’ve all heard the criticism: “Oh, come on; you’re making that up. It’s all in your head.” For many of us whatever the “it”…
Would Jesus Mosh? How Christian is Christian Heavy Metal?
One of the questions I gave my high school students on their Rhetoric Final Exam was “Can Hardcore Music be Christian?” It was a…
Emmylou Harris, Red Dirt Girl (2000)
If there’s no heaven, what is this hunger for?” Red Dirt Girl Age and the Gospel have something in common: realism. Illusions evaporate. Like…
System of a Down, Toxicity (2001)
I don’t make a habit of listening to heavy metal music—particularly metal with a decidedly anti-Christian, Green Party, left-leaning bias. But I do try…
Spirituality and Pop Music – from Tori Amos to Lauryn Hill
Spirituality is hip and was omnipresent in pop music in 1998. From pop to hip-hop, Sanskrit to Scripture, popular culture displayed a renewed spiritual…
Lifehouse, No Name Face (2000)
The seventeenth century apologist Blaise Pascal wisely noted that “There are only three sorts of people: those who have found God and serve him;…
Robin & Linda Williams, Deeper Waters (2004)
We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what had been, and might have been, And…