Ben Affleck’s third film Argo should cement his status as a director to watch. Gone Baby Gone is still one of my favorite films of all time, and The Town was great. Now he’s given us Argo, a truly incredible piece of storytelling that’s a love letter to cinema, a reflection on how much of […]
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For King and Country
Some of you know that I hang around the music world from time to time where I meet some great people. And while a lot of the coverage from this summer has appeared around the web (like here and here), I’m STILL sitting on some great stuff that hasn’t been seen anywhere else yet. Enter […]
Click here to read my notes and highlights from The Meaning of Wife. What does it mean to be a Wife? Today, “Wife” is a confusing battle-ground, with women’s identity at the center. With messages assaulting both men and women from all side, what are we to think? Anne Kingston wades into the mess, separating out […]
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Did God Give You Sucky Faith?
Faith is a weird thing. We all put faith into different things, and most people think of religious stuff first when they hear that word. Here are three questions for you: Do you have faith? In what? Where does that faith come from? I remember reading O Me of Little Faith by Jason Boyett. He […]
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Are our Bodies just Avatars?
James Cameron’s Avatar is the most successful film of all time, despite thoughtful and clear-minded critiques of its imperialist and anti-disability messages (there are also some less-thoughtful critiques out there). The picture Avatar paints of our bodies resounds with our larger cultural ambivalence toward them. Avatar demonstrates how we devalue our bodies. Avatar denigrates rather […]
Fans of A. J. Jacobs and Matt Mikalatos, rejoice! When journalist Joel Stein (Los Angeles Times, TIME) found out he and his wife were having a boy, he had a massive panic attack. Joe, it turns out, didn’t consider himself much of a man. The thought of trying to raise a boy terrified him. So […]
One day I went to work at the college where I teach history and government. In a day I’ll never forget I stepped into an empty hallway and an unforgettable crisis. You can read that story, a sneak preview of my new book, over at Shawn Smucker’s site in a post called: Jesus, Zombies and […]
Guy is one of my new blogger friends. He does campus ministry and his blog is a great resource for anyone who works with young adults. Check out his blog, Faith on Campus and follow him on Twitter! In the mid 1990s, the movie Jerry McGuire romanticized the notion of a soul mate — that […]
Shortly after I posted my review of Mark Driscoll’s Real Marriage, which failed as a book on marriage, many sympathetic to Driscoll told me to get the forthcoming The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller. Tim is the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church on the island of Manhattan. He’s also a New Calvinist and a […]
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Has God Ever Spit In Your Face?
“I don’t have the big plan, just small glances And every now and then I’m still unsure.” ~ Children 18:3 ~ Have you ever experienced an epiphany that instantly altered the entire way you see the world around you? There’s a neat story tucked into the eighth chapter of Mark’s gospel (verses 22-26) about a […]