by Mike Parnell | Mar 12, 2007 | Opinion
Sin, wrote Paul Tillich, is estrangement from God. He believed that estrangement reaches not only the relationship between the person and God, but the person and all other relationships. When a person is caught up in sin, that person gets disconnected from everyone....
by Mike Parnell | Nov 22, 2006 | Opinion
The saying “familiarity breeds contempt” doesn’t hold true for James Bond. With six different actors playing Bond across 21 films, it might seem that we would grow weary of 007. Not so in “Casino Royale,” now playing. Daniel Craig is the...
by Mike Parnell | Sep 8, 2006 | Opinion
“Little Miss Sunshine” is a dysfunctional-family-on-a-road-trip movie. And there’s more going on here than in the “National Lampoon’s Vacation” movies. The story here is not about a vacation, but about trying to make a little...
by Mike Parnell | Aug 8, 2006 | Opinion
“Lady in the Water,” now in theaters, swings for the fences as writer-director M. Night Shyamalan stuffs his movie with a study of the creative process and a primer on purpose. Paul Giamatti plays maintenance man Cleveland Heep, a sad gentleman who...
by Mike Parnell | Mar 30, 2006 | Opinion
Adam Chamberlain is a young man who seems to have it all: a lovely fiancée, a best-selling book and regular appearances on television. For most 20-year-olds, that’s the American Dream. But Adam has also done something that would seem practically un-American in...
