Inception 2010 • Rated PG-13 Directed by Christopher Nolan [SPOILER WARNING: Don't read unless you've seen the movie] Inception has been called "an elegantly cerebral story that is primal, compelling, and as visually disconcerting as it is completely captivating" as well as "a tremendously challenging and tremendously rewarding movie, the type that will have audiences talking -- and debating -- long after the credits roll." After seeing it again last night I'm in ...

Inception 2010 • Rated PG-13 Directed by Christopher Nolan "Avatar was one man's film pushing his vision of the world using amazing technology. Inception is a film exploring the human mind, guilt, regret, forgiveness and the power of beliefs through imagination and creativity. With Avatar I felt preached at; with Inception I felt invited to explore my core beliefs, how guilt drives my behavior and my perception of reality." That's what I wrote on my Facebook status ...

Part Two in a series written by Denis Haack of Ransom Fellowship addressing the problem on how to live faithfully in a culture largely ignorant of God. The following is a portion of his article "A Model for Faithfulness" (originally posted at www.ransomfellowship.org - used by permission). ~Travis Stewart A Model for Faithfulness The Babylon Series, Part 2 ~Denis Haack Where Evangelicals Are Today At the time of the First Great Awakening (1735-1743), ...

In the winter of 2001 I had a choice to make; either I take a one week class in New Testament Greek, continuing my work on a Master's of Divinity degree or switch degree programs and sign up for a class called Movies and Theology taught by Denis Haack. Considering that I didn't feel called to ordained ministry and having parsed my quota of Greek verbs I choose to learn the language of film over the language of the ancients (after all, I figured, I know a lot of guys I ...

There Will Be Blood 2007 • Rated R Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson There Will Be Blood (2007) was recently named the Film of the Decade by Total Film Magazine. This movie—a grim retelling of the novel “Oil!” by Upton Sinclair—reveals how corruption and greed engulfs two men living during the oil boom of Southern California in the late 19th century. In doing so it leaves little room for hope and only hints at redemption through its conspicuous absence. No ...

~ by Travis and Laura Stewart ~JJ Heller, an independent artist who writes and performs with her husband Dave, experienced a dramatic increase in exposure this past year when their song "Your Hands" was used by dancer Diana Drexler on the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance?" and suddenly found their music at the top of the singer/songwriter charts on iTunes. Along with my daughter 12 year-old daughter Laura, I had the chance to interview JJ for our viaRenovo artist ...