Wise and Sagacious Vistas: The Past and Future of a Sapiential Reading of Matthew---                            My earliest memories of serious study of the Gospel of Matthew come from my time in college at UNC.  There was this book by a Harvard Professor name Krister Stendahl about the School of St. Matthew, suggesting that…

You can see some squirrely things in this world.  But this one is right up there.  Can you hear the conversation at the local barbershop between Bubba and Ernest? “I’ll bet you a buck you can’t ride down the street on your bike with a deer on your shoulders” “I’ll be I can. Who do…

The story of Tony Alamo is bound, someday, to be made into a movie.  It’s so bizarre, so improbable, so full of incident and crime and sin that it makes some soap operas look clean!   The horrifyingly saddest part of this story is that Alamo was viewed and viewed himself as a conservative Christian minister. …

Jim Carrey has already grinched his way through a previous Christmas, and now he gets to see if he can top that by Scrooging his way through this one.  I went to see this movie in 3D and one has to say that both the motion capture technique and some of the 3D effects are…

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