by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 9, 2004 | Opinion
More and more books about film and faith are hitting the market, but they will all have a tough time outdoing Robert K. Johnston’s Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film. Just released by Baker Academic, Useless Beauty—which takes its...
by James L. Evans | Dec 8, 2004 | Opinion
This Christmas we may need to re-write one of our most familiar holiday songs. Instead of, “‘Tis the season to be jolly,” it may be necessary to sing “‘Tis the season to be silly.” The silliness in question comes at the hands of a...
by Cody Lowe | Dec 7, 2004 | Opinion
“We have long been convinced that our churches have failed to employ usefully their female members. They occupied a sphere of activity and usefulness in the apostolic churches, it seems to us, which has not been assigned to them in modern churches.”...
by Mark McEntire | Dec 6, 2004 | Opinion
Because I am in the process of producing a manuscript about the use of the Old Testament in popular music, Michael J. Gilmour’s Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan & Scripture caught my eye when I saw it in a publisher’s display at a recent professional...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 3, 2004 | Opinion
About 40 million people are currently refugees—unable to return to their homeland on account of persecution stemming from social and political reasons. A new movie from Walden Media, “I Am David,” tells a fictional but powerful story about one refugee in a...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 3, 2004 | Opinion
In recent interviews, actor Jude Law has described the characters in his latest film, “Closer,” as “mature adults.” Jude Law is a terrific actor, and his assessment is a terrific misstatement. The four characters in this Mike Nichols film are...
