by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 10, 2000 | Opinion
Where does Halloween come from? The holiday isn’t mentioned in the Bible. Nor is it an official holiday in the United States. Yet it continues to be distinctively celebrated in some communities, conspicuously absent in others. Engaged citizens have hotly debated...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 10, 2000 | Opinion
How might Christians respond to Halloween? Folklore professor Jack Santino has characterized the holiday as “an amalgam of Celtic druidical ritual, Christian theology, and northern European folk belief.” And Santino himself, in All Around the Year,...
by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 26, 2000 | Opinion
Language is losing its effectiveness, according to a recent article. “In the past 50 years, by one reckoning, the working vocabulary of the average 14-year-old has declined from 25,000 words to 10,000,” wrote David Orr in the July-August issue of Utne...
by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 5, 2000 | Opinion
A scene in Steven Spielberg’s Amistad depicts two men, of different cultures and different tongues, trying to communicate with each other via an interpreter. Roger Baldwin, played by Matthew McConaughey, speaks English. Cinque, played by Djimon Hounsou, speaks...
by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 5, 2000 | Opinion
A scene in Steven Spielberg’s Amistad depicts two men, of different cultures and different tongues, trying to communicate with each other via an interpreter. A scene in Steven Spielberg’s Amistad depicts two men, of different cultures and different...
