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If 2012 was a banner year for Hollywood, so far 2013 has set out to counter that success. Most movies

Now that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been installed as Pope Francis, I must say that I could not be

It was five years ago that Grandma passed away. When we attended her graveside service, Grandpa stood alone next to

Why is Greenland mostly iceand Iceland mostly green? The RetirementThe fifteenth of April,Is National Tax Day,What you worked so hard

If home is where one hangs their hat, does that mean a hatless person homeless? Complete and FinishedIn a recently

Every now and then I see a movie that takes a pretty simple story and executes it in such a

Oz the Great and Powerful, the new prequel to the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz, had me imagining what

The BootConnolly is me Irish friend,He’s as Irish as can be.“What happened to your O,” I asked,The O’ in O’Connolly?

Beer: helping shy people dancefor over 7000 years. On or OffPro and college football players have been accused of using

Jesus never described the gospel as an escape hatch, whereby we can exchange his current world for a spiritual retreat

I have to admit that there was something brilliant about releasing A Good Day to Die Hard on Valentine’s Day.

If the violence and fights were outlawed from hockey…there wouldn’t be near as many hockey puckers around. Dear God,Why do

In these days when it seems everything has become angry polarization, it’s not uncommon to hear someone in the heat

Side Effects, the new film from director Steven Soderbergh promises a cocktail of romance, thrills, and deception as it puts

English scholar N.T. Wright uses a powerful example of how our lives fit into the big picture of what God

Have you ever seen a willow weep? Under the CoverOn Valentine’s DayTreat your lady sweet,Send her some flowers,And take her

I’m not sure if it’s far enough from a contentious election to find a story about a crooked politician in

The problem with getting a fat head…is your hat won’t fit anymore. The Papal PardonPaolo, the Pope’s personal butler, received

Before it even hit theaters nationwide, Zero Dark Thirty faced both criticism from political voices such as Senator John McCain

Pretend you’re in charge of setting the schedule for your studio’s film releases. It’s a few weeks before Christmas and

Don’t swim against the tide or pee into the wind. In the first case, you won’t get anywhere and in

The Life of Pi is one of my favorite books. It pretty much has it all—adventure; struggle; reflection on the

Schindler Sez… It will take more than a GPS toget you to heaven GobbledI detest Thanksgiving,Serve the stuffing’s no more.The

Bishop Desmond Tutu will celebrate his 81st birthday soon. The accomplishments of his eight decades are well-known and many. We

A popular trend in children’s movie is to mix nostalgia or kitche with the aesthetic or the plot so that

Why Waynedale? I am not an original “Waynedaler”; I am a “transplant.” My husband and I moved to the Waynedale

When I was a kid, I watched Adventures in Babysitting innumerable times. If I flipped through the channels and it

It is better to have it and not need it…than it is to need it and not have it. The

I heard humorist Jack Handey say that you should never criticize someone until you walk a mile in his or