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Close to Home: Theater Professor Makes Leap to Film
The short movie, based on a story by Mary Ward Brown, was shot in Central Maine with local talent. By ISAAC KESTENBAUM, News Assistant  March 12, 2008  After 40 years of working as a stage...
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The Kingdom of Love Now Reigns
“Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God – for God is love. God...
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake x we are being killed all...
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A Buddy Greene Christmas
Yesterday my wife and I were watching a Gaither video and marveling again at “Mary Did You Know?†by Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene. And today We receive a letter from Buddy Greene himself! What a...
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Not By Bread Alone: The Hunger Games: The Book
The original printing was for 50,000 copies. Twice the number rose to 200,000 copies. Today there are 15.5 million copies of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel, The Hunger Games in print. Fantasies which...
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LIFEBOAT: Alfred Hitchcock’s Parable of the Strong Man
The ship is sinking. The seas are rough. The only lifeboat can hold no more than six. Eight people climb aboard. Who should stay? Who should go? Many group discussions of ethical dilemmas begin with...
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“AMY’S WISH” Heads to Chicago Film Festival
“Amy’s Wish”, a screen adaptation of James Caputo’s award-winning short play, has officially been selected to screen in the 2012 Midwest Christian-Inspirational Indie Film Festival taking place...
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BASEBALL AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD
October is when baseball winds down and football starts up. George Carlin’s classic routine “BASEBALL, FOOTBALL, AND HOW WE HAVE CHANGED” comes to mind. In fact, baseball has caused many people to...
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THE FOUR QUARTETS: T.S. Eliot’s Words Made Flesh
The promotional blurb read In a performance that “embodies an exquisite existential tension suspended between self and poetry,” John Farrell’s recitation of T.S. Eliot’s poetic masterwork brings us...
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A CAROL FOR CLEVELAND: A Christmas Classic
Having been involved in several myself, I can attest to that fact that nothing is more exhilarating or harrowing than the production of a new play. Without a track record, all involved proceed on a...
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Introducing the Orthodox Way
Tracing its origins to the original apostles and continuing an unbroken history of faithful proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Orthodox Church has been a mystery to many Western...
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Introducing the Orthodox Way
Tracing its origins to the original apostles and continuing an unbroken history of faithful proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Orthodox Church has been a mystery to many Western...
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“C.S. Lewis on Stage”: The Fullness of Life
Why does a Cambridge University professor of Medieval and Renaissance literature continue to fascinate the world more than fifty years after his death? The London Times ranked C.S. Lewis eleventh on...
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What Makes an Audience Like One Character More Than Another?
What makes an audience like one character more than another? This question has bedeviled story makers almost from the beginning of time. Theoreticians tend to think that the characters with attractive...
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A NIGHT ALIVE: A Night Not to Be Missed
Tommy (Francis Guinan) and Doc (Tim Hopper) in Conor McPherson’s wonderful new play, The Night Alive, come from a long line of cockeyed Irish buddies. From O’Casey’s Captain Jack Boyle and Joxer Daly...
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KING LEAR: Shakespeare Our Contemporary
America’s premiere literary critic, Harold Bloom, says that Shakespeare’s King Lear “transcends the limits of literature” He adds that,”I have attended many stagings of King Lear and invariably have...
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SMOKEFALL: EVEN BETTER THE SECOND TIME
I returned to Smokefall at the Goodman Theatre. Noah Haidle’s play deserves a second viewing. The performance confirmed my initial reaction made last fall: Smokefall by Noah Haidle: An American...
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THE HUMANS: From America’s Chekhov
The Humans is the latest play by Stephen Karam, author of Sons of the Prophet, a play with which The Humans shares many similarities. Both plays feature multiple generations of immigrant families: the...
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