The Burr in the Burbs

I want to commend to you a fabulous new biography of one of my favorite authors Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor.  O’Connor wrote novels, lots of short stories and a barrelful of correspondence.  Her works were published in the 1950s and 1960s.   One of her most powerful and well-known stories is A Good Man [...]

Is Christianity a Western religion? Would you say that the Christian Church is waning? Watch this short video of Dr. Douglas Rutt from Concordia Theological Seminary as he addresses these questions. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Shifting Center of World Christianity”, url: “http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2009/06/17/shifting-center-of-world-christianity/” });

What if someone told the story of the Prodigal Son with an inventive twist? The story of the Prodigal Father. What would that look like? In 2005, the masterful German director Wim Wenders, well known for the fabulous Wings of Desire, gave us Don’t Come Knocking starring Sam Shepard. The story was, in [...]

Remember the Tom Cruise flick, Minority Report?  It was based on the classic story by Philip K. Dick.   Set in the near future, the police were able to detect future crimes and stop them from happening.  The BBC will soon air a new series with a similar premise called Paradox. It actually sounds quite [...]