In this poem, Rhonda Mino-Melanson reflects on the relationship between teachers and students.

In this article Dr. Keuss seeks to reassert the important relationship between campus ministry programs and Christian universities; he proposes four distinct movements within our current educational milieu—the movement from technological isolation toward real-life intimacy, from passive ethics toward engaged citizenship, from occupational drive toward radical vocational abandonment, and from racial ignorance and isolation toward true racial reconciliation through honesty, humility, and hard work.

  I have always had a hard time deciding whether or not I actually like Dark City. On the one hand, it closes with a ramshackle sense of hope, one that rides a tightrope between cartoonish versions of determinism and nihilism. I agree with Peter Chattaway that the director’s cut of the film refocuses some […]

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.) The Visitor opens with a glum professor going through the motions. Walter is taking piano lessons in an effort to sustain the memory of his dead piano teacher wife, grading papers in his east coast campus office, dryly delivering papers at a Manhattan conference. Even though he doesn’t admit it […]

In this essay, Steven Wingate writes about Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 and the feelings of communal grief that it inspires.

In this essay, Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses the love of God as central to the love of learning.

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.)   I was a bit surprised to see the drunk Jewish jazz musician of Taxi Blues wash up on the shore of Ostrov. In Lungin’s earlier film, Pyotor Mamonov plays the westernized odd-ball to an increasingly frustrated Muscovite taxi driver, his perestroika straight man. In Ostrov, Pyotor plays a similar […]

In this essay, Scott Small describes surprising encounters of the sacred in the music of Thelonious Monk.

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.)   I desperately wanted to like Henry Poole is Here, as all the ideas in the film are so worth considering. I also wanted to really like it because it is a film of my favorite genre, one which I have been covering for years in obscurity, that being Non-Canonical […]