Gospel Music Museum Coming to Chicago
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a new gospel music museum will open later this year in Chicago, the city where the genre was born. The museum is the brainchild of the Rev. Stanley Keeble, who has worked with gospel legends Inez Andrews and Jesse Dixon.
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John Locke: Man of Science, Man of Faith?
After last week’s fairly quiet episode, this week’s Locke-centric entry, “The Substitute” ( watch it here ), moved us closer to answers on some of the biggest questions of the series: why are these people on this crazy island? Do they have any choice in what happens to them, or is fate in control? What forces are driving the story, and who falls on the sides of good and evil
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Faith Bigger Than a Peanut
Long before he earned fame as a scientist and for his work with peanuts, George Washington Carver had endured slavery and the reconstruction era as a man of Christian faith. His story is told in a new documentary, George Washington Carver: An Uncommon Way , now available on DVD . “Carver’s greatest overlooked contribution .
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Evangelicals Applauding Scenes of Fornication?
In an otherwise often commendable panel discussion on Christians and cultural engagement, one participant spouted off a real head-scratcher when discussing Avatar , James Cameron’s remarkable film that has broken all the box office records and is nominated for nine Oscars. Russell D.
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‘It’s not a Christian film. It’s a journey.’
In an interview with The Final Call , the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam, Allen Hughes, co-director of The Book of Eli , says the film was made to “speak to everybody—Muslims, Christians, Native Americans, Buddhist, Hindus. I call it a oneness. That was the approach we took in filming it, editing it, creating a sound, a score, creating a oneness that if you came in as a Christian or a Muslim you could relate and could see what you wanted to see in it.
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‘It’s not a Christian film. It’s a journey.’
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