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…
We're all surrounded by 'culture' – such as films, music, literature and art. These often have links to Christian beliefs. Here you'll find ways to relate Christian beliefs to the issues and questions raised by our culture, leading to some significant conversations.
How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…
According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…
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…
Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…
A review of Nick Barham's Disconnected: Why our kids are turning their backs on everything we thought we knew.
An introduction to the new Ben-Hur film, with details of resources for churches and other groups.
'Whispers of Redemption' in Maleficent, Disney's makeover of Sleeping Beauty.
A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.
I watched The Grey the other night, and thought it was disturbing, haunting, devoid of hope and the best film I'd seen in a long time. The…