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Our film critic says ‘Sons and Daughters of Thunder’ has plenty for Presbyterians who appreciate an important story told well

Posted October 29th, 2021

“Sons and Daughters of Thunder” is a new film that takes us back to a crucial period in American history.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Posted May 10th, 2018

During the heyday of PBS’s “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood” even a lot of Presbyterians did not know that the mild-spoken host of the popular PBS children’s program was a clergyman, indeed, no doubt the most famous living Presbyterian in all the world.

2020 Vision Team holds its first meeting in Texas

Posted February 13th, 2017

The 2020 Vision Team of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) met here last weekend to begin the work requested of them by the Way Forward Committee of the 222nd General Assembly (2016) in creating a vision statement for the denominatio

Top ten ‘spiritual and ethical’ films of 2016

Posted February 1st, 2017

Like other film critics, each year I compile a Top Ten Films list once the major films open at last in my city in “fly-over” Ohio. As in other years, my list differs greatly from others because the criteria are not primarily aesthetic, but spiritual and ethical.