This is what my winter break is looking like:

Tomorrow my family is driving to Danville, Illinois to visit my cousin, who is the senior pastor of a Church of Christ there. We’ll return Monday evening. I’ll take my notebook but no guarantees on having Internet access.
I am getting a head start on my readings for [...]

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A note about this series: Around this time every year, my friend Eric Huntsman, who is an associate professor of religion at Brigham Young University, sends out a series of e-mails offering reflections on Advent. As I’ve explained elsewhere, Huntsman is a Latter-day Saint with a deep love and respect for other Christian traditions. Since [...]

A note about this series: Around this time every year, my friend Eric Huntsman, who is an associate professor of religion at Brigham Young University, sends out a series of e-mails offering reflections on Advent. As I’ve explained elsewhere, Huntsman is a Latter-day Saint with a deep love and respect for other Christian traditions. Since [...]

A note about this series: Around this time every year, my friend Eric Huntsman, who is an associate professor of religion at Brigham Young University, sends out a series of e-mails offering reflections on Advent. As I’ve explained elsewhere, Huntsman is a Latter-day Saint with a deep love and respect for other Christian traditions. Since [...]

A note about this series: Around this time every year, my friend Eric Huntsman, who is an associate professor of religion at Brigham Young University, sends out a series of e-mails offering reflections on Advent. As I’ve explained elsewhere, Huntsman is a Latter-day Saint with a deep love and respect for other Christian traditions. Since [...]

5. The Sixth Sense (1999) ~ It’s been hyped to death with parodies of its famous “I see dead people” line. It’s suffered from M. Night Shyamalan’s determination to forever ruin his own brand with crappy self-important movies and Haley Joel Osment’s subsequent descent into drug and alcohol charges. And Bruce Willis? Well, that guy’s [...]

6. Frailty (2001) ~ The last of my religiously-themed movies is Frailty, an intense, under-appreciated film that does not show up on a lot of other “best movies” lists. The bulk of the plot takes place in flashback where two young boys live happily with their widowed father (Bill Paxton, also the director). Things take [...]

7. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ~ It’s difficult not to love this film. The high-profile daughter of a senator has been kidnapped by Buffalo Bill, a serial killer who starves his victims for a few days before killing them, then removes some of their skin for unknown nefarious purposes. FBI Agent Clarice Starling [...]

8. Fallen (1998) ~ The second religious entry on my top ten countdown goes to Fallen, a movie in which Denzel Washington plays John Hobbes, a detective trying to take down an immortal demon who doubles as a serial killer. The demon, Azazel, has the frightening ability to move between human hosts by touch, and [...]