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This is part of a series of books that have been influential in my life, going back to grade and high school and on to the present. It would be nice if these posts started a dialogue–what books influenced you, the reader, and why or how? I was a senior in high school when …
Sunday (Sept. 18) was the beginning of National Book Banning Week, so this is the first of a series of reminiscences about the influence of books in my life, something I have been thinking about for a long time. I don’t know if any of them have been banned, but each has been important …
A troubled boy artist rebels against his rule-obsessed principal by vowing to break every rule in the book with ingenious pranks while stopping a bad suitor after his mom.
A dying man estranged from his family decides to make a video for his unborn child and reconnects with the joy of life and his loved ones, even while dying.
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 1; L- 1; S/N -3. Running time: 1 hour 35 min. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 Athens tour guide …
When his estranged daughter hires a maid to help care for her aged father, she does not expect them to fall in love.
Gus dies so most of the family accept an invitation to return to his Greek home town & pass on his journal to his friends, with funny results.
A teenage girl is rescued from human traffickers but is so traumatized that even faith might not be enough to get her to testify aginst the gang leader at a trial.
Writer/director Cristobal Krusen’s previous two films—Final Solution and Sabina K.–focus upon other people facing crises of values and faith, but his newest film—Let Me Have My Son—is a fictionalized story of his own spiritual journey that centers on his son’s descent into mental illness. He takes us on a surrealistic journey of a father visiting …
A still grieving bookstore owner’s life is changed when he becomes the ward of an abandoned girl just after a prized book is stolen.