Archive for March, 2007
Babel
This film reminded me of Crash (the one with Matt Dillon) the same sort of journalistic – almost voyeuristic – realism. See also 21 Grams. The same overall theme too: People basically misunderstand each other. It’s a good theme.
Films like this sometimes remind me of a Dicken’s novel or a Shakespeare play. [...]
Fire. And Now Ice.
Behold what I beheld outside my hotel window this morning in Boulder, CO. Not a sign off snow yesterday. I was going around w/o a jacket.
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Hell is Real
Hell and damnation are real, says Pope Benedict XVI.
It’s not easy in this day and age to speak about these subjects. Few take the words of Jesus seriously. He tells us more about hell and damnation that any other figure in the Old or New Testaments.
I’ve met Christians who may agree that hell [...]
I’m Back!
I get so irritated with myself when I let so many days pass between blog posts. I strongly desire to post every day. But some weeks I just don’t have it in me.
Tonight, I don’t want to talk about me however. I want to talk about our staff in the Admission [...]
Devil in the Details
A friend and I went to see 300 this evening at the local theater. What a spectacle! One thing I thought very interesting was how Satanic Xerxes was in the movie.
Certainly, it was not uncommon for ancient near eastern monarchs to attribute divine status to themselves – an act which is inherently Satanic. [...]
300
So who has seen 300? What are your thoughts? I haven’t seen it yet, but am thinking tomorrow night sounds good.
Not surprisingly, the Iranian government doesn’t like it. See here. It’s astonishing how the official quoted actually thinks Hollyweird bows to the political wishes of our president.
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Hannibal NOT Rising
So this morning, I just finished reading Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris. It was a disappointment, I must say. It is definitely the weakest of the books in the Hannibal Lecter series. It seems that Harris was writing on auto-pilot, probably just fulfilling the request of some movie producer. It’s formulaic [...]
LCMS Pastors 2 Be
If you or someone you know is planning to prepare to become a Lutheran pastor, go to my facebook page and request to join my group called, “LCMS Pastors 2 Be.” We are currently discussing “contemporary worship” and “contemporary Christian music.”
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Death by Meeting
Everyone who runs meetings should look at this book by Patrick Lencioni, Death by Meeting. We all hate meetings. Me too. But the problem is not usually that we have too many meetings, but that our meetings are too disorganized. Hence they last too long and get very little done.
Lencioni recommends [...]
Reading List
I am usually reading at least three books at any given time. I like to have one fiction, one general non-fiction, and one on religion or theology. You can determine which is from which category.
Here’s what I’m reading these days:
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – I think the [...]
