Better Late Than Never…
I am speaking here of both my review of God’s Warriors and the program itself. I did not finish the series until tonight,…
The Religions Will Be Televised…
This week, CNN is devoting 6 hours of its prime-time programming to a discussion of three major world religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.…
$40 Million: Take Two
WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS POST UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE, $40 MILLION AND TWO MOVIES. It seems like the NFL…
$40 Million and Two Movies
Lately, I have been putting together a syllabus for a course I want to teach on sports and theology, religion, spirituality, ethics…. I…
Life on Pause…
Last fall I eagerly awaited the release of Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep. I was intrigued by the artistic creations shown in…
The Threat of Nonbeing
How can a filmmaker visualize scent? How does a director convey odor? The senses of taste, touch, and smell escape the filmmaker when…
All About the Music?
A couple of months ago, Alan Ackridge, a friend and youth minister in North Carolina, shared a brief post on spirituality and contemporary…
The Ripken Way…
On Sunday, two of baseball’s greatest, classiest players were inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony…
SUCCESS…
I doubt that any group of filmmakers have been under the amount of pressure to create a successful film like the writers and…