Bonhoeffer Read-Along Part 1: Chapters 1-18
February 4 has come and gone without fanfare, without even being noticed by me, the one hosting a read-along of …
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A Thought for Valentine’s
Beginning this year, I started subscribing to a daily piece of meditation from The Henri Nouwen Society. Here’s the one …
Diary of A Country Priest: A Book for Easter
Every year around this time, I come back to my perennial read The Diary of A Country Priest by French …
Quotable Quotes from Downton Abbey
NEW: Quotable Quotes from Downton Abbey Season 3 ** ‘You can’t do very much as an actress unless you have …
Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. – …
Looking for “Intrusions of Grace” in Films: Pickpocket and Drive
“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no …
The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick
(It is impossible to review The Tree of Life without writing about what it is about, hence: Spoiler Alert for …
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
While reading van Gogh’s letters is a fascinating journey into the mind of the artist, it is also poignantly heartbreaking. This …
The Golden Globe Speeches
While I was all eager to watch the 68th Annual Golden Globes last night, I was feeling bored from the …
Reading Snow Country in Snow Country
The first refers to the 1968 Japanese Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s (川端 康成 1899-1972) seminal novel Snow Country (雪鄉); the …
Revolutionary Road: Book and Movie
There’s a story that goes like this. The Times once asked its readers to send in their answer to this …
Notes on the Synthesis of Film, Art… Life?
Recently I’ve just finished reading Paul Schrader’s Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972). Yes, that’s before Schrader rose …
