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Psychological thrillers of the first magnitude have been few and far between in recent years.  Oh yes, there has been the occasional Beautiful Minds kind of film that messes with you, but since the era of Hitchcock and Bergman there really hasn’t been much to write home about—- until now.   Let it first be said…

(Image courtesy of Google and Mr. Chester of the United Kingdom) I am working on a little book on work for Eerdmans.  I thought I’d test drive the Preface and see what you thought.  Let me know.  (BW3) CAUTION— WORK IN PROGRESS             I was leafing through a newspaper shortly before Thanksgiving and came across…

Ian McKellen, who will reprise his role as Gandalf in the two forthcoming films based on Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and other material has announced that shooting will begin in New Zealand in June and will take almost a year to complete. Casting of parts has already begun in N.Y. L.A. and London.  McKellen tells us…

There are jazz pianists and then there are JAZZ pianists, and clearly Brad Mehldau is in the latter category.  I have been a great admirer of his ouevre for a long time, going back now to his first CD  Introducing Brad Mehldau (1995). This man has the chops and skills and has been properly trained…

Dear Glenn Beck:               I must admit that your recent attack (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/12justice.html?scp=3&sq=glenn%20beck&st=cse) on the issue of whether the church should be involved in social justice matters or not took me by surprise especially when you inanely went on to associate it with socialism, communism, or even Nazism. This word just in— none of those…

The coarsening of our culture has been going on for a long time, and nowhere is this more in evidence than in sports– high profile college, and also professional sports. Some of this is because of the seduction of money.  Colleges want the revenues that high revenue basketball and football programs make. Even smaller schools…

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“:One pill makes you smaller, and one pill makes you big….go ask Alice….”  Thus went the song ‘White Rabbit’  on Jefferson Airplane’s breakout album Surrealistic Pillow.  Of course the album, among other things was celebrating psychotropic drugs, but we have no reason to assume that Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Dodgson ever did…

It has been said that music is the sound of the soul.  If so, some people’s souls are over-crowded and just plain noisy.  But then there are those who must have pretty sublime souls to judge from their music.  In an era when rock and roll may not be dead, but it sure is ailing…

                       The Grand Narrative:            The Storied World of Jesus and HisMessage                                              BenWitherington  III               Sometimesin the study of the message of Jesus, we have all been guilty of missing theforest due to the over-analysis of interesting individual trees.  I am reminded of the famous saying of JohnMuir the naturalist who…
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