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A postmodern mindset is cool toward institutions, but a robust Christian vision for global economic and political change must embrace them and turn them toward “loving” purposes.

“To dwell is to garden.” (Heidegger, “The Origin of the work of Art”) And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of […]

A poem inspired by a photograph taken in Haiti, five days after the 2006 election of Rene Preval.

I’ve had my good ear away from the ground of late so I missed the news that New Yorker Films is back online!  Maybe you’re a little fuzzy on the landscape of the film distribution universe beyond your local  art house but, believe me, this is big news.  Let’s just say the cosmos of quality […]

Maybe Tim Burton and I just don’t get along. I have a deep, deep love of the darkly comic, which might explain why my favorite childhood books included Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and its Great Glass Elevator sequel), Sideways Stories from Wayside School, the Mary Poppins series, and, yes, Alice In Wonderland (along with […]

News from The Guardian on filmmaker Asad Qureshi who worked on [i]Empire of the Sun[/i] and Willow[/i], and who recently co-directed the film The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl: A British documentary film-maker has gone missing after setting out to interview Taliban leaders in Pakistan’s lawless tribal area. Two former senior […]

In this photo exhibit, Scott Strazzante juxtaposes images from a cattle-ranching family and a family living in a subdevelopment several years later on the same land to reveal the differences, complexities, and similarities between farm life and suburbia life.

The celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is in prison, and deteriorating, according to his wife’s recent report.