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Lectionary Links once was probably the most popular feature in Visual Parables. Or at least, it was for those who prepared a sermon for every Sunday. Several told me so in letters or phone conversations. But I think this has changed, with today’s readership being different from what it was a few years ago. I …
March 6, 2018 Hannah Leader, one of the producers of the PBS film Return to Grace: Luther’s and Legacy, responds to the questions I was invited to submit to her. Born in England, but now working in L.A., she has been a producer for two Robert Altman-directed films, Gosford Park and The Company; director …
I give this film 5 out of 5 stars. Click the image to read my entire review.
Inside: Two Days, One Night, Leviathan, Black or White, Mr. Turner, A Most Violent Year, The Duff, Still Alice, Timbuktu, Match, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Jupiter Ascending, Song of the Sea, and more.
Before meeting Gru the 3 heroic minions in 1968 serve the super villainess Overkill who is intent on gaining the crown & the throne of Queen Elizabeth.
Buddies from Australia are sent to Gallipoli where they learn the tragic consequences of war in which lives are lost or saved unexpectedly.
Jesus combines scenes from the 4 gospels with fictional events to explain Jesus as a nonviolent leader out to set people free from sin, and not Roman rule.
Son of God retells the Life of Christ, from his birth to his crucifixion and resurrection.
A filmed version of the NIV text of Matthew’s Gospel in which Richard Kiley’s Matthew dictates the text, the camera switching to actors who speak dialogue.
The band of 13 dwarfs, a hobbit, & a wizard set forth on a long and dangerous trek to free the dwarf kingdom from the clutches of Smaug the dragon.