Charlton Heston’s character’s life parallel’s the life of Jesus, (even if he actually misses his birth). As an added plus, the Chariot Scene can really get you in the mood to face the mall. Perhaps one of the best films ever made.
Can you be drafted into the ranks of Father Christmas? Apparently, yes. Tim Allen’s best role since Home Improvement.
Turns the “what if” premise of It’s a Wonderful Life on its head. With Don Cheadleas an angel on the edge, and some of the best acting of Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni’s careers. We watch it every year and ponder our own what it?
Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and the gang in an offbeat, but faithful retelling of Dickens’ classic.
Over the Rhine’s “All I Ever Get for Christmas Is Blue” recently made the LA Times’ list of the saddest Christmas songs ever, yet little else in all of December prepares us to celebrate Christ’s birth each year quite like OTR’s annual quasi-Christmas concert.
Biola Cinema and Media Arts program is considered one of the top film schools for young filmmakers of faith. Their goal is to prepare our students spiritually, intellectually, and professionally to become exceptional visual storytellers who can compete and succeed with the best of the best in the areas of film, television, and digital media.
Join the student filmmakers of Biola University’s Cinema and Media Arts Department for the premiere of their student film, “AWAY.”
Doors open at 7PM at the historic Whittier Village Cinema in uptown Whittier, with a dessert reception to follow.
And don’t miss Biola CMA grad Zach King’s cool video “IPad Hologram Setting,” It just passed 1.7 million views.
“If you lack integrity you lack everything. If you cannot be trusted you have nothing to offer.” -Wess Stafford, president and CEO of Compassion International–a child advocacy ministry committed to releasing children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty.
“Christian women fear being ‘outed’—that if our truth comes out, no one will love us or accept us and we will no longer be credible—when the truth is exactly the opposite.” -Lisa Kittle
Part 8 in series: Women of Faith in Leadership
Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Wrong Man’ tells the story of Emmanuel Balestrero, arrested for a crime committed by his physical double. It portrays in miniature what theorist René Girard has described as a ‘mimetic crisis.’ The plight of the central character is not a product of blind chance, but rather due to the mimetic fears, desires, and vanities of the members of society that accuse him. Our failure to resist the flawed but contagious human desire to punish a scapegoat for every wrong suffered, not only fails to bring justice to the world, it subjects innocent scapegoats to suffering injustice themselves.
Part of 4 series: René Girard: Greatest Christian Intellectual You Never Heard of
Women in American churches know how they want to be perceived by others: they want to be influenced by the Bible, and reject the idea of being heavily affected by the media. But is this an actuality or merely an aspiration?
David Kinnaman discusses new Barna research.
The themes of redemptive violence, scapegoating, mimesis, and feuding identities dominate both the films of Martin Scorsese and literary theory of Rene Girard. ‘Shutter Island’ (2010) starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo was Martin Scorsese’s second highest-grossing film ($128M), behind only Oscar-winner, ‘The Departed.’ What first appears to be a classic horror film (voted #7 on Business Insiders Highest Grossing Scary Movies of All Time), turns out to be so much more. A story of violent scapegoating of Girardian proportions.
It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He’s been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn’t been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy’s shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals “escape” in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything – his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
On “The Daily Show” recently, Jon Stewart grilled Mike Huckabee about a TV ad in which Huckabee urged voters to support “biblical values” at the voting box.
When Huckabee said that he supported the “biblical model of marriage,” Stewart shot back that “the biblical model of marriage is polygamy.”
And there’s a big problem, Stewart went on, with reducing “biblical values” to one or two social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, while ignoring issues such as poverty and immigration reform.
It may come as some surprise that as an evangelical Christian, I cheered Stewart on from my living room couch.
As someone who loves the Bible and believes it to be the inspired word of God, I hate seeing it reduced to an adjective like Huckabee did. I hate seeing my sacred text flattened out, edited down and used as a prop to support a select few political positions and platforms.