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awelborn
Couple of recent viewings… Last night, Mad Hot Ballroom, the documentary that follows a couple of schools as they work with children competing in the city-wide 5th grade ballroom dancing competition. Like Spellbound, it focuses on how this kind of competition embodies the American dream and hope of success, particularly for immigrants. The ballroom dancing…
Menino fires back
By
awelborn
In the continuing saga of Boston Catholic Charities honoring the pro-choice, pro-gay marriage mayor of Boston…the dinner of question took place last night, and Menino had his say. In the speech, Menino did not discuss his positions on social issues. He told the group that he is never far from ”thinking of what the nuns…
All Hyped Out
By
awelborn
We all – and I mean all of us – went over to the Rave late this afternoon to catch a showing of Chronicles of Narnia. I had thought it surely would be quite crowded, especially since there had been no school that day, but…it wasn’t. Maybe half full? But it was playing in several…
When he’s good, he’s good
By
awelborn
Greeley makes a point about C.S. Lewis: (and some other things) Secondly, it seems to me that the evangelicals slip dangerously close to Catholic idolatry when they embrace a wondrous allegory as a summary of the biblical story. Jesus is not and never was a lion like Aslan in the film. To interpret him as…
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