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A review of Mamma Mia! - the movie.

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In Fictional Absence, Pete Lowman considers the presence and absence of God in English literature. It has been slightly revised for…

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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…

Dawn Bundy is a fifteen-year-old English girl. She is not especially attractive, and she doesn’t really fit in. Her best friends are…

This resource provides extracts from Dr Paul Coulter's extensive study of The Shack.