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April 2009
17
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Three new Christian Horror films (plus one DVD release)

Looks like it is the season for Christian horror films. Here are some trailers:

The Familiar

First, from Miles Hanon (who worked on End of the Spear and Beyond the Gates of Splendor), comes The Familiar. Sam, lonly and bitter after the death of his wife, again faces his childhood demon when his estranged sister-in-law, Laura, reappears. The sexual attraction between the two blinds him to the fact that his demon is taking possession of Laura an is intent on destroying them both…

Visit the movie Web site at www.FamiliarTheMovie.com.

The Message

Next up is The Message. A young wife and mother of two children is challenged to overcome her passive beliefs on religion after a serious car accident. Receiving haunting images of her past she is forced to make a decision that will decide her fate…

January 2008
11
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Derrickson in Relevant Magazine

Scott Derrickson, director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Hellraiser V: Inferno, and the upcoming remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, was the subject of a recent article in Relevant Magazine. Most of this territory has been covered before (like here, here, and here ), but I can’t complain about the author’s closing remark:

In fact, if our God is capable of using anything and anyone for His will, maybe it’s not too much to suggest that God can use horror films for His glory, too.

Read the full article: Can Horror Be Used For Good? at Relevant Magazine.

November 2007
07
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Three Documentaries

Three upcoming documentaries that I want to see:

  • Rebellion of Thought — A critical look at the role of faith in a post-modern culture.
  • For the Bible Tells Me So — A look at how people of faith handle, or sometimes tragically fail to handle, having a gay child.
  • Lake of Fire — An examination of the abortion debate from Tony Kaye, the director of American History X.
October 2007
24
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Why Wim Wenders believes in God

The Fall 2007 Image Journal cover story has several artists and writers discuss the question, "Why Believe in God." Among those who address the question is Wim Wenders, who has this to say:

I’ve been away from God for a large part of my life, so I remember his absence. No, that’s the wrong way to say it. He wasn’t absent, I was. I had gone into exile of my own free will. I meandered through all sorts of philosophies, surrogate enlightenments, adventures of mind, socialism, existentialism, psychoanalysis (another ersatz religion). Some of these I won’t deny or badmouth. I’m happy to have been there—and back.

I remember how tentatively I started to pray again. I remember how that slowly changed me. I remember how I wept when I realized I had finally come home, when I felt that I was found again.

And how that feeling slowly transformed into a certainty.

Yes, a certainty.

But can I now answer: I believe in God because I remember how lost I was when I didn’t care? Or: I believe in God because I couldn’t take his absence anymore? Or: I believe in God because I cannot imagine any alternative? Or could I even conclude: believe in God because in my life God has become such a reality that the very question is like asking myself why I breathe?

Nod to Touchstone Magazine.

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