Film Reviews Girl Rising (2014) “I’m told my mother burst into tears when she learned my sex. She set me aside in the dirt.” Amina was born in Afghanistan, but no one made a record of her birth date. Only boys are given that kind of attention. At 11 years old, she was “sold”
Interviews My Interview with World Vision Photographer Jon Warren (Plus: Some of His Favorite Images) I love interviewing artists. And I've enjoyed a wild array of unforgettable interviews. But few of those opportunities have been as exciting as this one...
Interviews Angela Tucker Found Something on Facebook That Changed Her Life Ask about “Sandy the Flower Man” in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the citizens will tell you stories. He’s a lively and well-loved local who bicycles up and down Main Street, giving flowers to women and smiles to everybody. But when Angela Burt Tucker found his Facebook page in 2010, she knew she was
On Movies & Media Five Must-See Movies of the Summer (Including "Stories We Tell") Here are a few recent releases for adventurous moviegoers who seek more than the cinematic equivalent of junk food.
On Movies & Media Overstreet Elsewhere: Selected Features and Essays Recently, I had the privilege of discussing the theology of the Coen Brothers with one of my favorite film reviewers: Matt Zoller Seitz. You can read that here: * O Coen Brothers, Where Art God? A Conversation Between Matt Zoller Seitz and Jeffrey Overstreet (Press Play, an indieWire blog) And while
Film Reviews The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) The filmmakers took one children's book and expanded it into three movies. So I'll take this one movie and expand it into two movie reviews...
On Movies & Media Nine Years Ago, I Met Gandalf Even though I was starting a brand new job the following Monday, and even though I had the flu, I got on that airplane and I traveled from Seattle to Hollywood, where I checked into the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills, and joined my friends and colleagues Steven Greydanus
On Movies & Media Father-Figuring It Out: "Margaret," "Moonrise Kingdom," and More What does "Moonrise Kingdom" have in common with "The Master," "Sinister," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," and "Margaret"?
On Movies & Media Abraham Lincoln: A Trailer, A Speech, and "Divine Providence" Here's the trailer for Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. But that's just the beginning. Since America will have Lincoln on the mind in the coming weeks, I encourage everyone to read the text of Abraham Lincoln's amazing Second Inaugural Address. Read it out loud. And then, well,
Film Reviews Take Shelter (2011) and Movies About the End of the World In "At World's End: The Age of the Apocalypse Movie," an article published at Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine, I consider Take Shelter and other films that show an increasing obsession with the end of the world.
On Movies & Media Blue Like Jazz (2012): A Conversation with Steve Taylor My review of Blue Like Jazz was published at Filmwell.org several days ago. But that was just the warm-up. My conversation with director Steve Taylor has just been published on the website of Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine. Enjoy. We talked about the movie, how the good
On Movies & Media Films About the Future In the new issue of Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine, which is focused on matters of science, faith, and imagination, I recommend some of my favorite movies about the future. On the website for Response, I recommend even more...
On Songs & Albums Reverie - The New Joe Henry Album NPR First Listen is streaming one of my favorite 2011 records. And... My review of it is up at SPU's Response.
On Movies & Media What the Oscars Overlooked Let's revisit the ten films that earned Best Picture nominations. What did they really have to offer? In this article for Response, I went looking for the questions at the heart of Inception, The Social Network, Winter's Bone, Black Swan... all ten of the 2010 films
Film Reviews Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2010) My review of Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen is published on the site for Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine.
On Books & Writing Who was Noah's wife? (If you answer "Joan," you're wrong.) Americans sure love to talk about religion. And many are riled about about whether or not they think the U.S. is, or should be, a "Christian nation." If they knew what they were talking about, they might even make a difference. How many of those in the
On Movies & Media The World That the Oscars Forgot, Part One It's hard to believe. But America is not the only country in the world that makes movies. Here's part one of my article about the movies that the Oscars forgot.
