Every once in a while the Atlantic Monthly comes out with a serious article that is worth reading, even if it is pretty long.  Nicolas Carr has put out a long, dense piece about the impact of Google on how our brains are now humming along. I’m sure many people have seen this piece pop up in […]

I’ve already gotten a number of questions about “The Golden Compass”, a new film that opened today in Montreal. A certain amount of controversy surrounds the film, primarily because of the background story from which it was developed, which is known to have an anti-religious slant. I figured that if I was going […]

The Urban Legends Reference website Snopes.com has added an entry for the upcoming film The Golden Compass starring Nicole Kidman.
Claim : The 2007 [Christmas-season] film the Golden Compass is based on a series of books with anti-religious themes.
Status : True.
CHECK IT OUT.

The first in a series of twelve films called the Epic Stories of the Bible (presented by Promenade Pictures) is coming out in theaters this week (in the U.S.) : The Ten Commandments. Unavoidably, it will draw comparisons to Dreamworks’ Prince of Egypt (1998) which in my opinion was already a great animation film (vastly […]

Christian alternative rock singer Plumb (Tifanny Arbuckle Lee) just put out a new album! It already has great reviews from Christian Music Central.
One thing is clear very quickly: Tiffany Arbuckle Lee, the artist known as Plumb, is supremely happy and content in her circumstances. I’m talking happy like a bug in a rug. The mother […]

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has delivered a strong, moving double album of praise songs inspired (mostly) by passages of the Old Testament, including some psalms. Faith, hope, grief, longing, love and betrayal are some of the themes that are covered by the artist on “Theology”. Both discs offer the same songs recorded in two different […]

A long time ago in a blog far, far away…I published something regarding a CD I had received entitled On This Mountain. It was the last I had heard of Bill Kassels for many months — until a CD popped up in the mail containing something most interesting: an advance review copy of a […]

I was recently sent a promotional copy of a DVD entitled Champions of Faith, brought out by Catholic Exchange. Its several chapters cover different testimonies given by various figures within Major League Baseball regarding their relationship with God and with the Catholic Church. I popped it in the DVD player while I was […]

Prophets of peace is the second DVD that was sent to me by MasterWorks Productions for review (the first being McLuhan Way). It is actually two videos in one, each telling the story of a man with a disability: John, who has Down’s Syndrome, and Michael, who was born with cerebral palsy. […]

Subtitled “In search of truth”, this documentary is an interesting look at the faith that motivated the life of Marshall McLuhan.