Foreword by Albert Blackwell (compiled by Jessica Miller Kelley) Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky. 173 pages The tone of this collection..
by Mark Achtemeier Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky. 137 pages REVIEWED BY MARY HARRIS TODD Christ’s family is in deep discussion..
They say that today’s 25-year-olds are in a “quarter-life crisis.” They're the new “slackers,” the ones who got an education (maybe), but..
As most of us amateur ethicists have come to realize, it’s one thing to break one of the Ten Commandments. But it..
First of all, dear readers, you have to see this one in the theater. And let the surround-sound rumble your chair and..
Elsa (Shirley MacLaine) lives in an apartment building in New Orleans where Fred (Christopher Plummer) has just recently moved next door. Fred’s..
by Ronald P. Byars Cascade Books, Eugene, Ore. 150 pages REVIEWED BY JOHN P. BURGESS Ronald Byars believes passionately in weekly communion...
by John Swinton Eerdmanns, Grand Rapids, Mich. 298 pages REVIEWED BY WILLIAM F. MAY John Swinton’s book dares to re-describe the headlong..
by Brian K. Blount Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky. 135 pages No one takes the resurrection more seriously than Brian Blount...
The first impression is that this is really a visually stunning film. The artwork is incredible, as if you’re constantly watching some..
This is a cute kids’ movie that my grandchildren will enjoy. Truth is, I did too. Disney really knows how to do..
by John C. Bush CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 286 pages REVIEWED BY WILLIAM G. MCATEE John Bush skillfully weaves together this historically..
This movie should have worked better than it did. The lead parts are A-list: James Franco and Kate Hudson. Together, as Tom..
There have been a number of World War II movies made in the last several years, in no small part because the..
At one level, there’s a lot of violence in this film – and most of it is up front and personal –..
The two major themes are frequent assumptions in recent movies: the first, that the near future of the Earth is very bleak:..
by Stephen Kinzer Times Books, New York. 416 pages REVIEWED BY MICHAEL PARKER In the 1950s, when Americans were genuinely frightened that..
Donald K. McKim Geneva Press, Louisville, Ky. 124 pages No one has done a better job of describing the Presbyterian tradition for..
With a movie based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, you expect romance. And in “The Best of Me,” that’s exactly what you..
In the end, it's about fathers and sons. Which means that it's complicated. The judge is Judge Joseph Palmer (Robert Duvall) who's..
This premise has been done before and very recently. In “The Equalizer,” Denzel Washington played a former assassin who decides to come..
Bill Murray has played this role before: the grouchy, irascible selfish hedonist, the heir apparent to Walter Matthau as the prototypical “Grumpy..
by Matthew Vines Convergent Books, New York, N.Y. 224 pages REVIEWED BY JONATHAN SAUR When I was 20 years old, I asked..
All Saints Day, in the Catholic tradition, is when those who are officially declared “saints” by a sitting pope are all honored..
A freewheeling Irish family in Dublin, a widowed Grandma who’s pushing 80, Nan (Fionnula Flanagan), adult children who aren’t quite grown up,..
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