Lost in Faith

Colin Firth’s academy award winning portrayal of King George VI is under written by a script that oozes with life lessons. Imagine you are Lionel Logue, a run of the mill speech coach who pursues acting as an avocation.  One day thru you doors marches royalty in great need of help with his speech.  It [...]

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Tom Hooper’s clever and convincing film of King George VI’s lifelong joust with a stammer, The King’s Speech, chronicles many issues; friendship, commitment, the power of equality in human relationships, the power of unconditional love of a woman for a man, the courage to stand when called upon just to name a few. But one [...]

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I used to have students who bragged to me about how fast they wrote their papers. I would tell them that the great German novelist Thomas Mann said that a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. The best writers write much more slowly than everyone else, [...]

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Having been asked about the Newsweek article on sex, I thought I would read it and respond.  But in the middle of the article I read this A person alone on her couch with Scripture can also come to some dangerous conclusions: the Bible has, at certain times in history, been read to support slavery, [...]

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