Lark Rise to Candleford
It doesn’t take usually take too much persuasion to get me to try a new box set of DVDs, but I have to say that I was a little…
'The Da Vinci Code': a novel
A New Testament scholar reviews Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.
Transformational Suffering and The Karate Kid
How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…
Sherlock Holmes
A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.
Never Let Me Go
Perhaps a society truly becomes lost when it doesn't know how lost it is. This is the eerie suggestion put forward by Never Let Me Go,…
The Soloist
When newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) meets homeless, schizophrenic Juilliard-dropout Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. (Jamie…
Watchmen
A review of the book and film of Watchmen.
How (Not) To Be Secular - a review
This helpful summary of philosopher Charles Taylor's work examines what it means to live in a secular age.
Making Sense of God - a review
Tim Keller's new book explores the question of how anyone in our age of scepticism could believe in Christianity.