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Quite a few of you have asked me to post something about the show. First I should say that one of you has already found the transcript of the show out there somewhere, so apparently it is available, and the DVD, I have been informed, will be out at the end of January. My reactions…

Doubtless most of us have been there. You are stuck in an airport waiting for a flight, and at least four or five private conversations are going on around you. Now its one thing when the other person is there and you are talking to them. That’s all fine. But suppose you are in a…

I From the very beginningThe burden was clearSometimes bearableSometimes severe Ate from the appleShared it with himDisobeyed the orderIndulged the whim. What was the outcome?The fruit of the act?Did she ‘know’ good and evil?Did she experience it in fact? Did the earth creature join her?Did he crumble into dust?Did he die in an instant?Or just…

A niche, A hideaway A retreat A sanctuary For prayer Communion Contact Reunion Like the horns on the altar Like the hem of his robe Like the songs in the psalter Like his hand on the globe Like a vault for safekeeping Like a treasury found Like a library of answers Like a truth that’s…

George Clooney’s new movie (which is also a new movie starring Christopher Plummer, Matt Damon, William Hurt,and many others)is a political thriller and a brain teaser of major proportions. Clooney stars as a life time CIA operative who is a stand up guy, honest and loyal. His beat has been the Middle East and he…

It is unfortunate that the Bible sometimes gets used to shore up an inappropriate decision by a church, but sadly we now have this in the case of the mega-church which has now handed out a ‘Biblical’ rationale for closing on Christmas to its parishioners. I would normally just let this go as another example…

While not exactly a Christmas movie (more of a summer thriller type), Peter Jackson’s epic remake of the classic Faye Ray movie King Kong is an amazing piece of work. Running three hours (and it feels like it too– you feel like you were on Skull Island forever running from dinosaurs and not so wee…

The much anticipated and much advertised Chronicles of Narnia (Part One) of C.S. Lewis have finally hit the movie theaters, and judging by the initial weekend this movie will be a box office success. Christians of course have been apprehensive about Disney being the ones who filmed this wonderful tale, as this is not a…

Now that the fur has flown and the dust has settled a bit, we do need to ask what we have learned from this flap about the church closing on Christmas. A few things are important in terms of ground rules: 1) There is absolutely nothing wrong with Christians dialoguing or debating with one another…

“It was twenty-five years todaySgt. Peppers told the band– ‘Don’t play’Lennon’s been shot and killedBy a fanatic seeking a thrillSo let me introduce to youThe thing you’ve dreaded all these yearsYour one and only greatest fear—The End of the Innocence” Dec. 8th 1980 was a gray day anyway. It was a Monday, and it was…
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