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Since we are isolated and stuck inside during this Christmas season, I decided this year I was going to put together a list of of my favorite Christmas stories. The angle I took in putting this together is Christmas “pairings”, be it in book form or film. These are stories that seem to me toContinue reading “The Stories of Christmas: 15 Timeless Tales That Capture the Spirit of the Season (Day 3)”

Since we are isolated and stuck inside during this Christmas season, I decided this year I was going to put together a list of of my favorite Christmas stories. The angle I took in putting this together is Christmas “pairings”, be it in book form or film. These are stories that seem to me toContinue reading “The Stories of Christmas: 15 Timeless Tales That Capture the Spirit of the Season (Part 2)”

Since we are isolated and stuck inside during this Christmas season, I decided this year I was going to put together a list of of my favorite Christmas stories. The angle I took in putting this together is Christmas “pairings”, be it in book form or film. These are stories that seem to me toContinue reading “The Stories of Christmas: 15 Timeless Tales That Capture the Spirit of the Season”

I’ve been working through a Torah course on the book of Judges as a follow up to the recent time I spent in the books of Numbers and Joshua. And while I have only recently started my journey through this tumoltuous time in Israel’s history, some of the context for the book that I haveContinue reading “The Book of Judges: Finding Unity in Diversity”

Director Bryan Bertino’s recent film The Dark and The Wicked is not only one of the best horror films of 2020, it is one of the best films of 2020. The most interesting dynamic of this story about the horrors of the devil invading the life and home of a particular family is that weContinue reading “The Dark and The Wicked, The Light and the Beauty: Bertino and Bonhoeffer on entering The Season of Waiting”

When I set out to do this filmtravels2020 exercise back in January as part of my new years resolution plan, I don’t think I considered, or at least failed to imagine just how rich the experience would be. Seeing films from around the world and experiencing new cultures through film has not only enlivened myContinue reading “Film Travels 2020: Africa”

Some thoughts from the book of Zechariah as I keep and mind and pray for America and all my friends in America this week. “Return to me and I will return to you”. (Zechariah 1:3)This word of hope covers the book of Zechariah as it speaks of a day and a time when what isContinue reading “Zechariah: The Way to Peace and Restoration”

Some reflections from my read through the Book of Haggai this morning This tiny, two chapter book packs a punch. Even more worthwhile is considering what it has to say to us during Covid as we experience our own collective, virus bred exile. EXILE IN CONTEXT: THE POWER OF A NAME The context of theContinue reading “Temples, Churches, and Covid: Haggai and the Call to Rebuild”

Some reflections since I was up early this morning. I’ve really been struck this year by how much of our understanding of God seems to hing on Genesis 1-3. It is striking how much of scripture has these three chapters in mind, with Revelation itself essentially retelling the narrative in a contextualized fashion. And reallyContinue reading “Creation and Recreation: Finding a Way Forward through the pattern of Deconstruction and Reconstruction in Genesis 1-6”

According to film historian Daw-Ming Lee, one of the major gaps in scholarship surrounding the study of Taiwan film history is the period before the 50’s. “Relatively few books and essays, in any language, have explored Taiwan cinema during the Japanese colonial period. In the past quarter of a century, most film studies on TaiwanContinue reading “Film Travels 2020: Taiwan”