‘Echoes of Innocence’

“Echoes of Innocence” is really a fascinating piece of film work—not because it’s an incredible movie, but because of what it represents. The movie, which opens in select theaters across the country Friday, focuses on Sarah (Sara Simmonds), a high...

‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’

In the late 1960s, a young German woman named Anneliese Michel began exhibiting bizarre behavior. Unable to control her mind and body, Michel’s condition soon led to diagnoses of epilepsy and depression. When treatments failed, the Michel family turned to their...

Katrina: A Race ‘Parable-In-The-Making’

With Hurricane Katrina, the thin veneer called American equality peeled away from the water-logged homes of black Americans in New Orleans. Left exposed was something American Christians are ill-equipped to deal with: structural racism. Many white Americans will...

Twin Tragedies Reveal the Need for Community

We find ourselves wedged between twin tragedies this week. The wound of Katrina is still fresh and bleeding. Order is slowly beginning to appear out of the chaos, but painfully slow. The grisly business of counting up the dead is the most recent piece of the...

Maybe All is Not Gone With the Wind

These are perilous times. As I write this article on Friday, New Orleans continues to fill up with water as if it were a large bowl tipped over to take on a strange mixture of soup. The city’s a soup of debris, toxic chemicals, decaying matter, and even dead...