“Faith-based marketing is so new on Broadway that it’s hard to quantify the impact, but what I do know is that we now have pretty steady numbers of faithful coming to ‘Memphis,’ ” said Sue Frost, one of the lead producers of the musical, which includes a main character singing in her church gospel choir... Continue Reading

He grew up thinking that God had a political and social agenda, and that if he (Miller) didn’t do his utmost to promote it through his own obedience to the cultural law, he wasn’t a true Christian. When I was nineteen, my former pastor’s wife gave me a book called Blue Like Jazz. I had... Continue Reading

Eberstadt devotes at least a chapter to each group oppressed through liberation: women, men, young adults, and children. Each segment of society, which had been promised freedom from the constraints of forced fertility, has found itself cheated of a devoted husband, a contented wife, an intact family unit, or a young adulthood free from sexual... Continue Reading

G. C. Berkouwer’s book on the providence of God looks at his subject from a post-Second World War perspective and he comments about how difficult it was to speak of providence following the Nazi death camps and the Holocaust. I wonder if there is not a possible book or dissertation that could be written to... Continue Reading

This short book is neither a technical nor detailed work on pastoral theology. Rather, it is the product of a pastor speaking from the depths of his soul in order to describe the driving force behind a long-standing ministry of over 50 years. William Still. The Work of the Pastor. Geanies House, Scotland: Christian Focus... Continue Reading

He was also brutally hard on the morality of his day, having a particular obsession with preaching against ‘sodomy’ – in Renaissance Italy a term which covered all illicit sexual contact between males. Has anyone ever failed to grow a congregation by talking sex from the pulpit? The Frate certainly understood this. He built a... Continue Reading

Collins hopes young girls can find something relatable and empowering in her character. She is proud of the fact that, unlike the queen, Snow White never looks in the mirror and isn’t concerned about outward beauty. Snow White’s character arc, Collins said, is “about building self-confidence and finding the beauty within.” Infusing fairy tales with... Continue Reading

The story focuses on Hannah, a college freshman who learns from her adoptive parents that she is the survivor of a failed abortion. The movie is powerful and compelling without being preachy and judgmental. Indeed, I would rank it among the most powerful movies I’ve ever seen. The second sermon I ever preached was on... Continue Reading

(Editor’s Note: The book reviewed in this story has stories from two Presbyterian and Reformed Joint Commission chaplains, John Routzhan, PCA Army chaplain and ARP Chris Reeder, ARP USAF Chaplain) John Groth makes a clear distinction between the remains of members of our Armed Forces and their bodies. You could have heard a pin drop... Continue Reading

Do not confuse the upcoming film “Blue Like Jazz” with Christian market movies like “Fireproof” or “Courageous.” “A Christian movie genre has formed. Our first goal with this movie is that we didn’t fit into this genre,” said director Steve Taylor. Author Donald Miller, who wrote the 2003 best-selling book “Blue Like Jazz,” from which... Continue Reading