Joshua Graves
Exploring the Collision of Culture & Faith
Entries about Film
Super Tuesday, There Will Be Blood, Lent
February 6, 2008

Things get real interesting now.
Hillary and Obama are in for a “heavy-weight” fight. Many so-called experts are giving Obama the edge, but I don’t buy it. Hillary isn’t going away that easily . . . If Hillary gets the nomination, I don’t know if I could vote for her.
McCain, now likely to get [...]

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Chick Flick
February 1, 2008

What constitutes a Chick Flick?
I taught at our mid-week service recently on being “in the world, but not of it.” At one point I used the film Chocolat as an example of different ways of engaging culture. The two main characters, the Comte and Vianne, provide a rich example of the difference between religion and [...]

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Also labeled under Culture, Evangelism
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Baseball, Adventure, and the Titanic
October 29, 2007

Three thoughts from the World Series. First, Boston won five of the first fifteen World Series at the onset of Major League Baseball. In the last eighty-nine years (or thereabouts) they’ve won a grand total of two. Second, from 2004 until present day, the losing team in the World Series has won a grand total [...]

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Also labeled under Ecclesiology, Sports
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