While films like War Room preach to the choir, Woodlawn says there’s room for everyone in “church.” Last night, I worked with church leaders and school representatives to organize a trip of 235 people to go see?Woodlawn. It’s the third time I’ve seen it, and I was excited by the prospect of introducing dozens of…
Reverend Rob Schenck, a pro-life activist and missionary to politicians on Capitol Hill, broke with his expected evangelical position on gun ownership when he found himself questioning what it meant to be pro-life. In her directorial debut, The Armor of Light, Abigail Disney?documents Schenck?s conversations on the subject with politicians and people of faith, while…
This week, cyberspace has been abuzz with the thirtieth anniversary of Marty McFly’s ”flight’ to the past, and the future, and the past past. [As an English teacher, I will just say… go with it.] While the Chicago Cubs went down in flames, and not every invention of the imagined future has come to fruition,…
By the time you finish reading this, it?ll be the future. (Okay, technically, it?ll be the present?but it?ll be the future too.) As anyone who has a Facebook account knows by now, October 21st, 2015 at 4:29pm is the scheduled moment that Marty McFly arrives in the future in Back To The Future Part II….
Director Abigail Disney is out to push your buttons, make you think, and openly challenge the things that you believe to be true about guns, violence, and peace. Since she?engaged fully in charitable work in her thirties, she has had a love for people often dismissed by society and the issues that either bind us…
The first time I saw?Woodlawn, I knew I was watching something different. While some might tell you that this film will revolutionize faith or instantly convert everyone to Christianity, I will tell you that its power is something more realistic but no less spectacular. This story about faith, race, and football in Birmingham at the…
Nick Robinson, who plays one of the ‘kids’ trapped in?Jurassic World’s?fantasyland when all hell breaks loose, opened the gates for fans to walk through the gates at New York Comic Con earlier today. Fans at the Comic Con were able to walk through the gateway and have their pictures taken with Robinson. A few…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that Marvel Studios has been making quite a few movies. You probably also have heard?that they’ve created a Cinematic Universe, but what does that mean? All their movies are both individual and yet together at the same time. They flow in the same time periods…
You might be convinced that evil is winning when you look around the world today. You might find yourself thinking that there’s nothing good or redeemable to be found on the news or the internet. You might have finally given up hope that there is anything people can do to stem the tide of depression,…
Is peace even possible? The Umpqua Community College has my Facebook feed in its grip, not because of its desire to “be the center for quality teaching and learning, and a key partner in the wellbeing and enrichment of our communities,” but because of the violence which encroached on the campus’ safety and wellbeing?last…
