Book Reviews Book review – In Search of Deep Faith by Jim Belcher IVP Books, Downers Grove, Ill. 318 pages. There is nothing more annoying, according to Mark Twain,..
Book Reviews Bookmark – Undone by Laura Sumner Truax IVP Books. Downers Grove, Ill. 221 pages. The author asks, “What do you do when life starts..
Movie Reviews Films in review – “The Monuments Men” & “That Awkward Moment” Actually, they could switch titles. “That Awkward Moment” is supposed to be one of those guy gross-out comedies disguised as a rom-com. ..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “Labor Day” Adele (Kate Winslet) is one of those emotionally wounded single moms who’s clinging to her only child, a pre-pubescent boy named Henry..
Book Reviews Book review – Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century by Cheryl Peterson Fortress Press, Minneapolis. 176 pages. Reformations are about identity. The foundation is the same across every reformation,..
Book Reviews Book review – The Westminster Handbook to Karl Barth Edited by Richard E. Burnett Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky. 242 pages. Karl Barth was the twentieth century’s greatest..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “Gloria” It’s not easy being an empty-nester divorcee when there’s no “significant other.” You can just go to work, then go home to..
Book Reviews Bookmark – Practicing Presence in an Age of Distraction by Diane M. Mills Skylight Paths Press, Woodstock, Vt. 150 pages. The author believes that “conversation is a way of being.”..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “The Legend of Hercules” Yes, this one just as cheesy as you would expect it to be, in the proud tradition of Steve Reeves as Hercules. ..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “Ride Along” You know, there aren’t many active comedy teams in the movies any more, though we could all probably name several from times..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “Narco Cultura” This is a documentary about the encroachment of the “narcotics culture” and the way it has pervaded not only all of Mexico,..
Book Reviews Book review – David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY. 296 pages. Not everyone enjoys Malcolm Gladwell as I do. His..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “Gimme Shelter” First, a couple of complaints. (Well, after all, I am a critic.) Great title to this film. So why not get the..
Movie Reviews Roundtable interview with Vanessa Hudgens, star of “Gimme Shelter” Dallas, Texas, January 9, 2014 Ronald P. Salfen for “The Presbyterian..
Movie Reviews Roundtable interview with Ronald Krauss & Kathy Difore, director of “Gimme Shelter” & “real-life” homeless shelter owner Dallas, Texas, January 9, 2014 Ronald P. Salfen for “The Presbyterian Outlook” Presbyterian Outlook (to Kathy Difore): I have..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “Lone Survivor” This is a high-impact, emotionally charged film that will have you waving the American flag in one hand and wielding a hanky..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “The Invisible Woman” Though the title would imply that this film is about Charles Dickens’ long-rumored lover, Ellen Turnan, “Nellie” (Felicity Jones) isn’t actually the..
Book Reviews Book review – Christians and the Color Line: Race and Religion after “Divide by Faith” Edited by J. Russell Hawkins and Phillip Luke Sinitiere Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 273 pages. “Christians and the Color..
Movie Reviews Films in review – “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” & “August: Osage County” They both owe their origins to previous literature. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was a short story written by James Thurber..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “Her” Isn’t it true that we all project upon our loved one their idealized version? And was part of whom we fell in..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” Viktor Cherevin: You Americans like to think you are direct. Perhaps you're just rude. Jack Ryan: You Russians like to think you..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “The Wolf of Wall Street” “Jesus said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in..
Book Reviews Book review – The Letter to the Romans: Salvation as Justice and the Deconstruction of the Law by Herman C. Waetjen Sheffield Phoenix Press, Sheffield, England. 390 pages. Just as Paul’s Letter to the Romans arrived as..
Book Reviews Book review – Matthew by O. Wesley Allen Jr. Fortress Press, Minneapolis. 285 pages. Commentaries on the Gospels are unusual books. They are..
Movie Reviews Film in review – “American Hustle” This movie is like “The Sting,” where you find yourself rooting for the con-artists. Except we’re not nearly as courtly in demeanor..
Voices The theology of Barbenheimer: What a plastic doll and an atomic bomb can teach us about our call as Christians
