Lent Is a Time to Sing the Blues
In the American music of brokenness and sorrow, my church learns to long for God’s restoration.
Tuning the Preacher’s Ear
How good reading helps good preaching.
Does Saved! Condemn Christian High Schools?
News comes in on “the most spiritual film of all time,” the Best of 2003, and The Passion of The Christ. A pregnant teen is persecuted by gay-hating evangelical Christians in Saved! Religious press critics review The Big Bounce and The Perfect Score, and You Got Served, examine new DVD releases, consider nudity in Calendar Girls, argue over The Butterfly Effect, and highlight themes in Oscar-nominated films.
Rally Time
Christians will be prominent at Darfur rally, but still choosing sides on immigration. Plus: Is Amish shunning illegal? And other stories from online sources around the world.
Does <em>Saved!</em> Condemn Christian High Schools?
News comes in on the most spiritual film of all time, the Best of 2003, and The Passion of the Christ. A pregnant teen is persecuted by gay-hating evangelical Christians in Saved! Religious press critics review The Big Bounce and The Perfect Score, and You Got Served, examine new DVD releases, consider nudity in Calendar Girls, argue over The Butterfly Effect, and highlight themes in Oscar-nominated films.
A G-Rated Baseball Movie that Makes Fans of Everyone
The critics start their Year’s Best lists early, with the G-rated baseball flick The Rookie. Plus: Panic Room, Death to Smoochy, Clockstoppers, and new reviews of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and Ghost World
The Huguenots: Recommended Resources
The Huguenots
Field of TM Dreams
Fairfield, Iowa, of all places, is now a major world center for Transcendental Meditation, and local Christians are figuring out how to best evangelize the Maharishi’s devotees.
The Way We Believe Now According to The New York Times
Plus: The unusual holy places of Johnny and June Carter Cash, religious education gets younger, and other stories on Christianity and Christians from the mainstream media.