The Pain of Purity: Thoughts on “Confucius”
Last night Dori and I watched “Confucius,” starring Chow Yun-Fat (2012). Among many powerful scenes in a generally powerful film, the confrontation between the renowned sage »
An Impossible Love
An Impossible Love: Some thoughts on “The Silence of the Sea” (“Le Silence de la Mer”) They were soul mates. Werner knows it almost immediately, when »
Lessons from Cyrano deBergerac
“Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Rostand]. Although there was a real Cyrano de »
EXPELLED: Evolutionary Ignorance
EXPELLED: Evolutionary Ignorance The other night I saw “EXPELLED,” a documentary by Ben Stein that exposes a serious crisis in American society: The denial of freedom »
Why I like "Pride and Prejudice"
Why I like Pride and Prejudice The other night at our church potluck dinner, I explained to the young woman next to me why I was »