Saturday, May 29, 2021

The Real Zombie Apocalypse

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I've never been much for zombie movies; in fact, I can count on one hand those I've seen (and none of them completely): parts of the...
Monday, June 1, 2020

The Key Moment in Breaking Bad

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The key moment in Breaking Bad is in Season 1 Episode 5, which I just finished watching. I know very generally how the story proceeds fr...
Monday, March 30, 2020

The Painted Veil - God brings good out of an epidemic

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Beautifully filmed, skillfully acted, and powerfully meaningful in many ways...this is an overlooked gem of a movie that I highly recomme...
Monday, December 30, 2019

A Christmas Carol is Really a Christianity Carol

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As we do almost every year at Christmas, our family had the privilege of watching a beautiful movie-- A Christmas Carol (the one with G...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

The Novella: A Great Idea Whose Time Has Come

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In The New Yorker on October 29, 2012, the Booker Prize winning author Ian McEwan wrote, “I believe the novella is the perfect form of pr...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Some good books (including one for fans of the Black Panther movie)

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Here are a few examples of good books I've read recently. I'd like to have a site just devoted to book reviews from a Christian pers...
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

The Mystery of Mystery Novels

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The mystery of mystery novels is how to find a good one! I love Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe stories from the 1940s (The Big Sleep...