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Losing ‘Grace’ in Iraq: ‘Grace Is Gone’
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Idol Chatter
“Grace is Gone” is built on a simple premise: Grace Phillips, a soldier, wife and mother of two, is killed in the war in Iraq. Her husband, Stanley Phillips, played by John Cusack, is left to break the terrible news to their daughters, ages eight and twelve. The girls are too old to buy that…
Philip Pullman Redux: My Last Word
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Donna Freitas
New Line’s Cinema’s December 7th film release of “The Golden Compass” could not have come any sooner. I’d begun counting the days a while ago–not because I was dying to see the movie–I already saw it twice. But because December 7th would mark the beginning, or perhaps even the moment, that this controversy, and my…
‘Golden Compass’: A Christian Parent’s View
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mkress
This is the last in a series of blog posts about “The Golden Compass” by guest blogger Tony Watkins, author of “Dark Materials: Shedding Light on Philip Pullman’s Trilogy ‘His Dark Materials.'” Eyebrows are sometimes raised in my direction when I say that Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy is not something that Christians should…
LA Times Notes Faith Groups Take Offense at Flicks: What’s the Beef?
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Paul O'Donnell
To accompany their review of “The Golden Compass,” the movie made from Philip Pullman novel that Roman Catholics are calling offensive, The Los Angeles Times has a slide show of recent flicks that offended people of various faiths. Along with “The Da Vinci Code” (Catholics again), “The Passion of the Christ” (Jews), and last year’s…
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