The Bible and Culture

Before I head off to Narnia, errrr, Australia, where I will visit the set of the new Narnia adventure, here finally is the official trailer for the movie scheduled for release on Dec. 10th.

Capadoccia came to be called the Christian region of Turkey. It is indeed where the many famous cave churches and underground churches are, the region of the really amazing looking fufa hills which are soft and can be carved into various shapes. In this post and the next we will be dealing with Capadoccia. First,…

Don Ross sometimes collaborates with Andy McKee and they are both indebted to Michael Hedges, which is in no way a bad thing. This one is called Klimbim. Enjoy

No athlete in history who has won no championships at either the college or professional level has ever received the hype Lebron James has gotten in the last couple of months as basketball fans waited with baited breath to see who would win the King James sweepstakes.   Would it be Cleveland, Chicago, N.Y., L.A., or…

Call it a sea, call it a lake, call it Kinneret, the Sea of Tiberias (see John 21), or the sea of Galilee, it is certain a beautiful place, but a sea, by any normal modern definition, it is not.  It is a largish fresh water lake and the Jordan feeds into and out of…

Here is a good example of Andy McKee playing much in the same mode as Michael Hedges. This is a very good song indeed.

 I realize this may come as a total surprise to many of you, but sometimes movie critics get it wrong.  Really wrong.  I had hesitated to go see the new Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz movie (see their smiling faces above on the last day of shooting) because usually reliable A.O. Scott of the NY…

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