Amazing Grace, an overdue tribute to British abolitionist William Wilberforce, opens nationwide today. The film is well worth seeing, particularly if you’re unfamiliar with the Wilberforce story. Like with almost every movie I see, I had some artistic quibbles with it. (And I’m not snooty: I’m hoping to see Reno 911 tonight.) But most surprising to me was how little religion was included in a movie about someone so religiously influenced. Charlotte Allen, who has the same problem, reviewed the film for The Wall Street Journal:
Patron saint of evangelicals
The New York Times‘ Alan Riding reviewed the new film Amazing Grace in Sunday’s paper. I had the opportunity to see an early screening of the film a month ago and have been eager for media reviews.
Blue notes, red notes at Grammys
One Pat story equals two Advils
OK, OK, OK, I admit that some reporter had to write this story, no matter how much I wish it would go away:
Holy day super mini-sermons
There is an old media theory saying that effective advertisements are like small sermons. They show people struggling with a problem and then they claim to show a solution to that problem.
CCM digs deep into tmatt's closet
Fellow journalists, may I ask you a question? How would you feel if something that you wrote 25 years ago suddenly came swimming out of the digital mysts of the World Wide Web without warning?
Our Obama is an Awesome Obama
Awesome. It’s kind of fun to find out that the culture warriors over at Slate have created a new feature that would be perfectly at home here at GetReligion.
The Safety Dance
So if it’s Monday, that must mean I write about something from The New York Times Sunday Magazine. And so I will. Mark Oppenheimer used the hook of a nondenominational university in Arkansas permitting dance for the first time as a way to explore some Christians’ view of dancing. The piece is ridiculously smooth and well-written and looks at the issue from a number of angles.
What's next for Body Worlds?
Almost a year ago, M.Z. Hemingway had an interesting post about the controversial Body Worlds exhibits. You may remember they feature artworks by Dr. Gunther von Hagens that consist of dead, flayed, dissected human beings preserved in plastic.
