1% on Rotten Tomatoes, 1%! The new Netflix docu-drama “Queen Cleopatra” starring black actress Adele James, is not being received well, and according to Rotten Tomatoes reviews, it is being summarily rejected by 99% of the people who have watched it. In case you are wondering, that is not considered a good score. But not to worry, instead of listening…
The movie, Jesus Revolution, was released in theaters this week. From the first trailer, my interest was piqued, so I decided to go to an early showing. The movie itself was an intriguing look at the counter-culture movement that brought many people to Christ amidst the turmoil of the late 1960s. But more than anything it made me think of…
Quiet desperation is how the poet Henry David Thoreau described the way most people live their lives. Instead of facing new challenges with an optimistic hope of success, many people would rather give up and hide from the world. I often feel this emptiness of soul right when I wake up in the morning, especially during the dark and cold…
This may be the most important question for our times, “Can a lie be taken as communication?” This was the core query that was wrestled within the 1970 book by German philosopher, Josef Pieper, “Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power.” The book discussed how this question has always plagued human understanding. Are people using language to actually “convey reality for…
Always slipping from my handsSand's a time of its ownTake your seaside arms and write the next lineOh, I want the truth to be knownAh ha ha ha haI know this much is trueAh ha ha ha haI know this much is true — True by Spandau Ballet People say ‘the truth hurts’ but is there also pleasure to be…
“Christianity brings to fulfilment and completion imperfect and partial insights about reality, scattered abroad in human culture.” - Alister McGrath on C. S. Lewis For a very long period of time, I would read only nonfiction books. A good 20 years to be exact. I held tight to a secret conviction that fiction had little to offer the reader…