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Film in review: “Melancholia”

OK, it’s both weird and non-linear. To the point of impressionistic, what with its long introduction/foreshadowing with the classical music and the things falling out of the sky and freeze-frame images, collaged as if on a cinematic canvas.

Film in review: “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”

Yes, it’s a re-make. The original Swedish film was such a sensation that the English translation of the book caught on, then the two sequels, and now we make an English-language version of the Swedish film, still utilizing the cold remoteness of winter in Scandinavia, even occasionally showing newspaper clippings in Swedish, but everybody speaks English, whether or not with a Swedish accent.

Parsons and Valentine join NCC in speaking against Islamophobia

Editor’s Note: Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and Linda Bryant Valentine, executive director of the General Assembly Mission Council, both have signed this statement of the Interfaith Commission of the National Council of Churches regarding the decision of the Lowe's home improvement chain to pull its advertising from the television program "All-American Muslim."

Cuban, U.S. Councils of Churches issue joint statement

HAVANA (PNS) The National Council of Churches in the U.S. and the Council of Churches of Cuba have issued a joint statement calling for reconciliation between the two countries and committing themselves to “pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit that our churches may bear witness to God’s will for justice in economic life.”

Overtime in U.S.-Cuba normalizaton effort

(Presbyterian News Service) Dagoberto Rodriguez, Cuba’s deputy minister of external affairsHAVANA – Cuba and the United States have so much in common that despite political differences it’s “overtime” to normalize relations between the two countries, a Cuban foreign ministry official told a group of 15 visiting U.S. religious leaders here Nov. 30.

Responses to Questions

On Dec. 6, 2011, Jack Haberer presented a Webinar titled, “What’s to Become of Our Church?  …Trajectories of Hope.”  In it he..

Missing Gillespie

I’m going to miss Tom Gillespie. Now I’m going to resist getting sentimental, ‘cause sentimental wasn’t Tom’s style. I want to wax substantial, ‘cause that WAS Tom’s style.

Playing with baby Jesus

Would you like to come upstairs and play in my room?” asked my 3-year old niece, for whom I was babysitting.

Sure,” I said, and up we went. Within minutes we were on the floor together, playing with toys.

Tom Gillespie dies at 83

Thomas W. Gillespie, retired president of Princeton Theological Seminary and for decades a key figure in Presbyterian theological education, died Nov. 5 of complications from surgery at the University Medical Center in Princeton. He was 83.

A church can change

Gus, we read your book and would like to try what it says in our church in Atlantic..” The personnel committee had read “Service is the Point” and wanted to try it out.

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