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My Visual Parable review of the new documentary on Leonard Cohen documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song sent me on my own little journey into YouTube to listen to more of the great poet/composer’s songs. This is because I realize that I had heard just a hand full, and except for “Hallelujah,” had …
The story of English War Poet Siegfried Sassoon from WW 1 through his many affairs with gay men to his marriage with Hester to his conversion to the Catholic Church.
A feisty working class Brit opposed to the TV license fee stands trial for the theft of Goya’s “Portrait of the Duke of Wellington.”
This film about gun violence in that4 people who pulled a gun’s trigger tell their stories in graphic detail.
A British author in search of inspiration receives a letter from the island of Guernsey & is thrust back to events of the German occupation–& finds both love & a subject for her next book.
During early WW 2, the cynical proprietor of Rick’s Cafe in Casablanca is asked for help by a number of refugees from Nazism, including his former lover.
The story of the one televangelist, from childhood to demise, who lived a glitzy life but stood up & embraced gays during the AIDS crisis.
David Livingston Edwards. Published May 25, 2021. ReadtheSpirit Books. 112 pages. The publication of peacemaker/folksong writer David Edwards’ book sadly comes after his death, but his memoir will live on, challenging fellow Christians to take a closer look at what the Scriptures teach about retaliation and nonviolence. Even though we share the same publisher, Readthe …
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A widowed father tries coping with raising a baby daughter despite the doubts of friends & family because of his immaturity.
Publisher: Faith in Public Life (2020); Paperback, 178 pages; ISBN: 9781735739205. As discerning leaders will see immediately, the subtitle of Jennifer Butler’s new book, could be categorized as a Liberation Theology book. For her, as for theologians who champion the rights of the excluded of all stripes, the Bible is a book of liberation. She is …
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