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Inspirational McCain

I try not to write about politics. I think the whole election process in this country is a farce. It’s an overblown popularity contest. Such a small percentage of the population really knows what their candidate believes. Most base their votes on purely aesthetic or stereotypical guidelines. They find someone that looks the most like [...]

An Unlikely Candidate

Thank you for all your support so far. Here’s to a normal person for president. Let’s produce some real change in Washington! Thanks News Channel 3 for your coverage.

Hollywood Stock Exchange

If you didn’t know, I love movies. I love to watch them and I love to talk to other people who love movies too. I love movies because they are our society’s preferred medium for the telling of stories. I love that in approximately two hours they have the power to bring me to tears [...]

Happy 100th Mothers Day

Well, I just got off the phone with my mom to wish her a happy mothers day, and no I didn’t call collect (I used my cell phone which has free nights and weekends!). It was in 1908 when single and childless Anna Jarvin began this holiday to celebrate the memory of her mother, soon [...]

Science Fiction and Faith

I’m in a really cool class at Southern right now on Christianity and Science Fiction. Yeah, I know, your Cooperative Program dollars hard at work. But it has actually been fabulous and very compelling. For our final project we have been charged with the task of answering two crucial questions.

What is a biblical and theological [...]

A Dad Shaped Hole?

At sixty-one years old, Sylvester Stallone shouted and shot a fifty-caliber cannon, halting the progress of any who wish to mutilate and murder the missionaries and mercenaries trying to bring light to a lifeless land. After the bloodbath, Stallone sighs, looking like a leathery god as actress Julie Benz gapes upward in awe. There is [...]

Dear God

Ever feel like praying to some vague notion of a higher spiritual force? Yeah, me either. But that is what many people are doing. In fact there is a new website called Dear God where you can publicly submit prayers to the divinity of your choosing. And while no real answers are found, community is [...]

UPS Philosophy: Test Drive

As most of you know, aside from blogging for a living (haha), I work at UPS here in Louisville. Well I am amazed at some of the discussions that we share while out on the ramp loading planes full of packages. Some of them are just crude and not fit to publish, however others are [...]

Expelled: Overview

I was was very impressed with, Expelled, the new documentary by Ben Stein on the debate between Darwinian Evolution and Intelligent Design. The quality and humor of the film reminded me of a Michael Moore Documentary, except instead of only presenting one side of the argument, Stein gave equal time for the opposing group to [...]

Easter Should Disturb Us

Dr. Moore comments on the trend among some publisher of Sunday school curricula to water down the presentation of the death burial and resurrection of Jesus to preschoolers saying that it is too scary. He says:
This Easter, preach the Gospel… to the senior citizens, to the middle-aged, to the young adults, to the teenagers, to [...]

Contemporary Art and the Incarnation

ByFaith Magazine has a good article on Contemporary Art and the Incarnation.
The doctrine of the Incarnation both frees and compels us in our interaction with contemporary art. We are free from fear because we see history as the outworking of God’s perfect will, driven onward by the reality of the eschaton. If we submit [...]

A Theology of Consumption

Television has been called the electronic babysitter. Parents worry about too much sex and violence being transmitted to kids. Yet half a century of rhetoric about television’s harmful influence hasn’t changed the fact that most viewers simply don’t care. They don’t consider television a classroom dedicated to the development of youth. While legislators grabbed headlines [...]

RIP HD-DVD

Toshiba announced today that it will cease development, production and marketing of its HD-DVD players and recorders. They had been struggling from the start to compete with Sony’s Blu-Ray in sales.
Early this year, they were dealt one of a series of deathblows by Warner Bros. who said that they would abandon HD-DVD and would [...]

Letterman vs. Leno

Kris Rasmussen from Idol Chatter on Beliefnet weighed in with his thoughts over Jay Leno getting more viewers last night than Letterman whose production company went out of their way to make a deal with the striking writers so they would not have to cross picket lines to begin production. And his observations were excellent.
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Arctic Tale (2007)

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In Arctic Tale, the success and popularity of March of the Penguins is abused. We are presented with what looks to be a great and beautifully shot documentary on arctic wildlife and struggle to survive in this harshest of worlds. [...]

Do Hard Things

We often expect more of toddlers than we do of teenagers. They must be held accountable to do hard things for the sake of the gospel.

Future Effects of Harry Potter

This weekend an entire subset of the adult nation spent six hours or so reading a teen-fiction book about a boy wizard. With 8.5 million copies being sold on the day of its release, it makes you wonder: What if that many people cared about something truly important that they would spend the same amount [...]

The Deathly Hallows

Because I am immensely boring I will not be attending any midnight releases of the seventh and final volume in the Harry Potter saga. Though part of me would love to put on a big fur coat and fake beard and wig to look like Hagrid, and storm into Barnes and Noble to tower over [...]

Ratatouille (2007)

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A rat named Remy (Patton Oswalt), living in Paris, longs for the food from the kitchens and tables instead of the garbage like the rest of his family, so he befriends a chef with little talent, Linguini (Lou Romano), and [...]