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Hollywood’s Christian Killers
By
Patton Dodd
I’m looking for movies that depict Christian killers of some kind, from slasher films like The Night of the Hunter and Martin Scorcese’s remake of Cape Fear (where the killer is a Pentecostal) to less incendiary accounts like Robert Duvall’s The Apostle. Really, any sort of violence will do–think of Mandy Moore’s car slamming into the Jesus…
Jesus in Italy and Hand-Rolled Pasta
By
Patton Dodd
Two months ago, my wife and I took a trip to Italy. We saved for this trip for ages, cancelled it a time or two due to complications with kids and cross-country moves, saved for it all over again, and finally got to take the trip (sans-children, thanks to the kindness of grandparents) a few…
Beginning to Look a Lot Like Advent
By
Patton Dodd
I wrote this (ahem) incredibly wise and insightful entry on Advent yesterday, and it was apparently lost in the ether. But that’s for the best–the truth is that I don’t have much wisdom or insight on a tradition that I’ve only just begun observing, and awkwardly at that. Like most kids raised evangelical, Christmas happened…
Thankful that Thanksgiving is Over
By
Patton Dodd
A little over a week ago, I apparently jinxed our family Thanksgiving by posting about how wonderful and perfect and celebratory it would be. How sweet of me. How sweet and cute and terribly, terribly dumb. Ten minutes after my sister and her family arrived from Oklahoma, her youngest son, Charlie, puked on my stairs.…
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