Category: Columns
Chappie: Of Droids and Souls
by Ted Giese Building on the aesthetic and thematic groundwork of his previous feature films District 9 and Elysium, director Neill Blumkomp’s dystopian sci-fi action film Chappie wrestles again with what it means to be a human in a world that increasingly devalues life. Its…
Your Best Friend
by Paul Zabel “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). Have you seen or heard one of those commercials currently being played both on television and on the radio in which the same…
The “Right Side of History”?
by Robert Bugbee You may have missed this, because I don’t think anyone has made it into a specific marketing slogan. In recent years, however, prominent voices keep commenting on big decisions being made in society—for example, when marriage was re-defined in Canada, or when…
Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
by Ted Giese Ego front and centre Set against a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is the story of a fading Hollywood actor, Riggan Thomson, fighting to remain (or…
The Martyrs’ Message
by Mathew Block On February 15, Christians around the world shuddered as news of the Islamic State’s most recent atrocity was publicized. The terrorist organization released a video that day in which they beheaded 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians en masse. “Their only words were ‘Jesus,…
Take it to the Lord in prayer
by Thomas Prachar “I’m so far behind, I think I’m first.” My administrative assistant, Lil, muttered this phrase the other day in an attempt to describe how far behind she was when it comes to the work in our office. I started to list all…
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