Category: reviews
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If God Called You to a War Zone, Would You Go? A Review of “Free Burma Rangers”
What if God called you to leave your comfortable life in the US to help people in some of the most perilous places in the world? What if He said this wasn’t a short-term mission trip. He was asking you to move to Myanmar? or Iraq? or Syria? What if he told you to raise…
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Please, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” – Mr. Rogers Do you remember childhood television, before the days of school and stress? In the 70s, my days were simple. We lived on a big…
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ROMA – absolute perfection
What do you do with a film that is in 2 different languages, had no big stars in the cast, was in black and white, had essentially no action sequences, surprisingly little dialogue, and is only available in select theaters? This year, you take it seriously. Very seriously. When I heard about ROMA late in…
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The Least of These, Reminding us the potential cost of following Christ
I don’t often think about the daily lives of missionaries around the world. While I live in my all-American, suburban fixer-upper, I get comfortable. I may not take my daily time with Christ as seriously as I should. I don’t live in a sense of taking everything to the Lord in prayer. I get stuck…
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Review: Social Animals.
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to attend a screening of the new documentary, SOCIAL ANIMALS that just released in December. (Mind you – this is not the fictional movie Social Animals that also came out in 2018. That film looks terrible. Avoid at all costs!!!) I’m talking about the documentary SOCIAL ANIMALS. SOCIAL…
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Finding Gratitude in Each Day
Have you noticed? All the New Year stuff is already starting to fade. While we are just 2 weeks into 2019, the healthy food sales are starting to wane. TV ads are changing back from Planet Fitness and Orangetheory to Papa Johns and Miller Lite. Keto and Whole30 are being exchanged for Valentine’s Day Chocolates.…
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PARIS To PITTSBURGH
I get a little leery when documentaries come out about things like climate change. Are they trustworthy? Is the film made with a huge agenda? Does the film let emotion overtake science, or equally annoying to me – does the science overtake the reality of daily life? And when I saw that Bloomberg was creating…
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It’s your birthday — Get some FREE STUFF!
I love getting free stuff for my birthday. I mean, why not? If a restaurant wants to give me lunch, or a coffee, then by all means! It would be a terrible thing for me to waste these opportunities…right? And because you’re one of our loyal readers, I wanted to make sure you knew how…
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MARS – Nat Geo’s Compelling Docu-Drama – Launches Season 2
I love science stuff. But I was never good at math. Or physics. Or chemistry. Or science for that matter. Yet I can’t get enough of it.And space travel? Just the idea that the final frontier may be in reach makesme giddy. And so the MARS series on Nat Geo has become a guilty pleasure.…
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Big fun at the Christy Awards Gala!
The Evangelical Christian Press Association has had an incredible week, hosting three events in two days – PubU, The Art of Writing Conference and the Christy Awards. And I gotta say, we have a lot to celebrate! First – at PubU the team announced the “Top Shelf” awards for design, and wow. Such good stuff! …