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Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
BY: R. Greg Grooms
Valkyrie is a deeply flawed film flirting with questions it never quite raises. And then there's Tom Cruise. Why do we watch?
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Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X (Tom Beaudoin, 1998)
BY: Denis Haack
This is a book about impropriety and irreverence, beginning with my fundamental claim that Generation X is—despite and even because of appearances—strikingly religious.
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Visual Faith: Art, Theology, & Worship in Dialogue (William A. Dyrness, 2001)
BY: Denis Haack
I discovered William Dyrness around the same time I discovered Turner, but truth be told, my reaction was quite different.
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Walking On Christ's Property
BY: Denis Haack
Caring for the earth has become politicized, an issue to be hotly debated, conservative v. liberal. In such a setting the first responsibility we have as Christians is to refuse to be drawn in. There is nothing to debate—we are walking on Christ’s property.
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Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (Franz Wright, 2003)
BY: Jeremy Huggins
Franz Wright had a conversion experience, and this collection of poems is both description of and proof/not proof of that experience. Wright’s corpus, in fact, proclaims that in the face of extreme experience, we are incapable of translating that experience through words.
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Wearing Out on Purpose
BY: Giles Slade
Deliberate obsolescence in all its forms—technological, psychological, or planned-is a uniquely American invention. Not only did we invent disposable products, ranging from diapers to cameras to contact lenses, but we invented the very concept of disposability itself, as a necessary precursor to our rejection of tradition and our promotion of progress and change.
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Welfare in America: Christian Perspectives on a Policy in Crisis (Carlson-Thies/Skillen, 1996)
BY: Denis Haack
“Welfare in America,” James Skillen writes, “argues that assistance to the needy does not, and should not, come primarily from government. Government, whether at federal or state levels, should help hold people accountable to their various institutional and personal responsibilities rather than fill in for every failure.”
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Whale Rider (2002)
BY: Denis Haack
One of the delights of Whale Rider is the eleven-year old Keisha Castle-Hughes, who plays Pai in her first role as an actress. It is a remarkable performance. This low-budget film is both charming and revealing.
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What I Think I Did: A Season of Survival in Two Acts (Larry Woiwode, 2000)
BY: Denis Haack
Woiwode’s fiction is serious, literary, robust, and brutally truthful—and may thus surprise the Christian whose experience of fiction has come from the saccharin best-sellers dispensed in religious bookstores.
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What makes you afraid?
BY: Denis Haack
Hardly a week goes by without some report identifying some threat in the food supply. Experts say that terrorist sleeper cells wait quietly, blending into the background until some nefarious command sets a deadly plan into action. Physicians are certain that given global travel, the question of a deadly worldwide epidemic is not whether, but when. So...What do you fear?
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
- Erma Bombeck
Last summer I went to Connecticut to visit the Fitzgeralds and smuggled three live ducks over Eastern Airlines for their children, but I have been inactive criminally since then.
- Flannery O'Connor
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
- Thomas Aquinas
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On my desk is a little vase of flowers cut from our yard, a little reminder of the beauty that is all around if we only have eyes to see. I've needed that reminder after reading the latest news of the horrific oil spill in the Gulf. Such glory in this world, such brokenness. Such hope, such deep need for redemption. These are the realities of life and death we seek to explore on this web site. Thank you for visiting.
Denis & Margie
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