You can hardly be blamed if you’ve completely turned your attention away from the ridiculous slugfest that has been going on in the Republican Party’s ongoing effort to select a presidential nominee.  The enmity that Newt Gingrich has developed for Mitt Romney has created a war of campaign ads and debate retorts such as […]

            Rob Bell has gained notoriety within the evangelical community for his views, among other things, on Heaven and Hell.  In his 2011 book, “Love Wins” (HarperCollins Publishers), the founding pastor of the Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, presents cogent, if simplistic, arguments for his views and beliefs.              The book is […]

            With three different candidates winning the first three contests, the Republicans have established that the race to their party’s presidential nomination will not be decided early in the process.  While the lesser lights (Cain, Bachmann, Huntsman, and Perry) have all bowed out, four intrepid souls are still very much in the game as the […]

            At the end of the long opening scene of Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film, “Saving Private Ryan,” American troops gun down German soldiers who have attempted to surrender.  The Germans had earlier in the long scene (depicting the D-Day invasion of Omaha Beach) killed hundreds of the American GIs as they began their assault.             […]