Truly, I do. Love is not too strong a word to use in expressing my emotional response to the trifceta of acting, singing, and dancing. I love the spontaneous song-bursts. I love the choreographed numbers. Mostly though, I love the way that suddenly singing and dancing through life, no matter the circumstances, is so normal for the characters.
In the movie Big Jake (1971), John Wayne plays Jacob McCandles, a storied gunman who happens upon a lynching. Unnoticed by the mob, McCandles reaches for his rifle, draws a bead on the action, pauses, then lowers his rifle.
That staccato voice was familiar from the nearly 18 years I'd worked at Prison Fellowship Ministries as a writer for a radio program called BreakPoint. It was my boss, the one-time Watergate felon who founded Prison Fellowship Ministries after getting out of prison himself. I grabbed a pen and pad of paper to scribble notes on Chuck's latest idea for his daily four-minute BreakPoint.
If you missed Chuck's memorial service, you can still see it here, at least for now. (I'm not certain how long it will be available online.) Also, you can read WORLD magazine's writeup here. READ FULL ARTICLE »
The Obama website has a page about "The Life of Julia," supposedly a representative American woman. Over at Her.meneutics, I have a piece about why Julia is a remarkably poor representative for many of us. READ FULL ARTICLE »
By: Jeremy Purves|Published: May 10, 2012 11:15 AM
With the release of The Cabin in the Woods last month, audiences were given another rare little piece of thoughtful entertainment from the restless minds of Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard. “Nothing here is what it seems,” said the Operative, a character in Whedon’s earlier film Serenity, and that is precisely how to describe what these filmmakers keep giving us.
A Review of 'Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?'
By: Benjamin J. Wetzel|Published: April 27, 2012 5:24 PM
If you want to start an argument at your next family gathering, tap your drinking glass with your fork, take a deep breath, and ask, “Was America founded as a Christian nation?”
Nine days before Easter 2011, Lady Gaga released her song "Judas," which she said was about her tendency to always fall for the wrong man, the one who would betray her, as in Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus. The accompanying video, in true Lady Gaga form, was rather shocking.
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By: John Stonestreet|Published: May 16, 2012 6:00 AM
Cultivating virtue is job number one for a free society. Promoting virtue was one of Chuck’s passions, and it should be ours too. Stay tuned to BreakPoint.
With the release of The Cabin in the Woods last month, audiences were given another rare little piece of thoughtful entertainment from the restless minds of Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard. “Nothing here is what it seems,” said the Operative, a character in Whedon’s earlier film Serenity, and that is precisely how to describe what these filmmakers keep giving us.