The masterful teachers show us what we have always seen, and then take us to a new viewpoint or a new detail, and subvert what we believe we have seen and thought we have known to give us deeper insight. One such master is Pete Rollins, his book, How (not) to speak of God, grabs [...]
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The Fidelity of Betrayal
Posted in musings, quotes, review on April 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Book Club: The Great Divorce
Posted in life, ponderings, review, theology on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to my first book club recently. It was GREAT. Brilliant in fact. It was very informal, just 5 of us ladies from church in the company of C.S.Lewis’ The Great Divorce. The depth of conversation was fantastic. It’s easy to sit in church and disengage the brain, but there we were wrestling with [...]
The Holiday
Posted in film, review on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went round to a friend’s last night, and we watched The Holiday. The basic premise is two women switched houses over the Christmas holiday because they’re both trying to get away from their man-troubles.
The switch happens between Surrey and LA, which makes for a lot of great British moments. There are some great bits [...]
My big fat greek boredom fest
Posted in review on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I watched “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” last night. It was terrible.
Which was a shame, I was even in the mood for a bit of a rom com.
Juno and Happiness
Posted in review on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to see Juno today – It’s a delightful film, following the story of the pregnancy of a 16 year old girl, and the relationships surrounding her.
One of the great things about the film is that it takes seriously character development, and so what might appear to be a story without a story is [...]
Money, justice, revenge and The Visit
Posted in life, review on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to see “The Visit” on saturday, as produced by a team at Queen Margaret University. It is a remarkably dark play, which thinks around the carnage created by allowing the belief that money can buy any thing.
It centres around a character, claire, who left a village some 35 years earlier, driven out [...]
The Devil Wears Prada
Posted in film, life, review on January 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I saw The Devil Wears Prada this week… it’s a film with a premise very similar to Ugly Betty – that is, an unlikely and unfashionable young women finds herself PA to an important person in a fashion magazine, and finds herself transformed by the experience.
Unlike the complexities of characters and change in Ugly [...]
