by Michael Helms | Jul 4, 2003 | Opinion
Americans will pull out Old Glory this weekend to celebrate Independence Day. Coming off a war in Iraq and with soldiers still dying there, the mood is highly patriotic this July 4. In addition, we are only a couple of months away from the second anniversary of the...
by Jan Turrentine | Jul 4, 2003 | Opinion
“If you’re like me and you enjoy seeing the pain and suffering of other people, then you’ve come to the right place,” says Shannen Doherty, host of “Scare Tactics.” It’s but one of many emerging new reality television shows...
by Tarris D. Rosell | Jul 4, 2003 | Opinion
Four alliterative words come to mind this Fourth of July holiday: freedom, fundamentalism, finances, and faith. Freedom is less spoken on our Independence/Freedom Day than other f-words like flag, fun and firecrackers. This year, however, some of us are thinking about...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jul 3, 2003 | Opinion
“Toga movies” were supposed to be a thing of the past. But filmmaker Ridley Scott proved that assumption wrong with 2000’s “Gladiator”—and studios have been plucking ancients for pictures ever since. Toga movies peaked in the early 1960s...
by Mike Parnell | Jul 2, 2003 | Opinion
During my seminary days, I was required to take pastoral care, where the professor explained that all of us are messed up, and that our parents are the ones who did it to us. “Hulk” is a movie that attempts to deal with the ways that family messes us up....
by Brent McDougal | Jul 2, 2003 | Opinion
With each compelling story in Water in the Wastelands, a new thread joins with others to form a solid, resilient cord of truth: through shared suffering, God’s children partake of a sacrament that binds people of faith together, parses out hope where there...
