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A topless coffee shop in Maine. The MCC church office is a topless coffee shop. We’ll pour you a cup of coffee but don’t have any lids to put on your cup. This is a different kind of topless. The waitresses (they all seem to be waitresses) work for tips, serving coffee, naked from the [...]

It is wholly appropriate that a movie so packed with obvious product placement from the now bankrupted General Motors would offer us a plot as bankrupt as the suggestion that what the world needs now is the military sphere to be given full reign over its affairs.
Your Correspondent, Hell is not other people but [...]

Hat tip to Dave Bish for a great little article from the States about the sugar coated lies of chick-flicks. JM and I used to always unload this particular chip from our shoulders when we would watch movies together as an IFES Ireland team. Requim For A Dream may be terrifying, but at least it [...]

I was never able to make the elaborate house of card structures my cousins would make when, as children, we would be trapped in a pub after a funeral or before a burial or one of those other happy occasions that brings families together. That I couldn’t meant that I wasn’t interested in it.
Funny [...]

In his “A Little Exercise For Young Theologians“, the legendary Helmut Thielicke writes:
The talented, visionary, enthusiastic members of an elementary class in dogmatics are the very ones who swallow easily this magic charm of thought which dispenses with any real specific weight to the substance of faith… They make an impression upon us like that [...]

Marilynne Robinson’s third novel, Home, won this year’s Orange Prize for fiction after a unanimous decision by the judges.
I have already reviewed this book.
It is a novel that runs in parallel (but independent from) the Pulitzer prize winning Gilead. It tells the story of how Rev. Boughton’s prodigal son Jack returns, soon after [...]

Ben Goldacre of Bad Science turned his considerable mental mettle to the silly topic of digital piracy last week. Drawing together the research that shows conclusively that people who download music are many times more likely to also buy it, he also pokes serious holes in the preposterous claims that mp3 piracy and the like [...]

In honour of a Saturday morning guest to the Cardboard Mansion who reminded me of these mighty fine harmonies, I give you the Be Good Tanyas.

Your Correspondent, The sung voice can make us feel so beautifully small

Hysteria is the state of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses whereby a crisis renders us paralysed to act to address our situation.
So for the many passionate, articulate and striving-to-be-authentic peers I have encountered down through the last ten years around the island of Ireland who can diagnose with pinpoint accuracy how Christianity in the [...]

In Perelandra, C.S. Lewis writes,
Gender is a reality, and a more fundamental reality than sex. Sex is, in fact, merely the adaptation to organic life of a fundamental polarity which divides all created beings. . . . Masculine and Feminine meet us on planes of reality where male and female of organic creature are [...]