The Intersection of Faith and Culture
A lot of people can say that they are against sexual slavery, but few can say that they actually lived through it. Tania Fiolleau once lived as a prostituted person and later went on to run several successful brothels as a madam. Her story is one of deep tragedy but even […]
Classic Crystal Every few cycles the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences give up on trying to appeal to the elusive young ‘uns and play to their loyal audience of blue hairs. Sunday night was such a night. In a nice recovery from 2011’s flop-sweat-stained Oscarcast, which saw Anne Hathaway and James Franco miserably […]
Mark Driscoll gets this one right. Seriously. In my opinion, we ought to have the freedom to use language contextually and not be bound by religiosity. That doesn’t mean that we ought to cuss like a sailor, but words have power… even what our culture considers offensive. (To be clear, […]
The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care. Wendell Berry On car rides as a child, I used to watch the countryside out the window. As we traveled along highways that cut through what used to be farmland, I remember seeing old barns, now […]
One single alarming, unlikely thought nagged at me incessantly during Daniel Espinosa’s slick, hyper-edited Training-Day-meets-The-Bourne-Supremacy mash-up Safe House — a thought I never dreamed I’d have: Boy, I really wish Denzel’s usual collaborator Tony Scott had directed this nonsense! For at least Scott, a shameless four-decade veteran of flashy, enjoyable […]
In the beginning of February, I AM MADE Entertainment brought to Vancouver the L.A. local online singing/songwriting sensation Jason Chen for INSPIRE 2012. After long moments of swooning over his smooth vocals in covers of musicians like Bruno Mars or Jason Mraz, and a few of his originals, we got the opportunity to […]