James Bowman
Martin Scorsese’s new movie, Bringing Out the Dead is yet further evidence of its director’s fascination with the manic personality…
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A couple of months ago I picked Stigmata the front-runner in the Worst-Movie-of-the Year Stakes, but Kevin Smith’s disastrously awful…
Felicia’s Journey ought to have all the ingredients of a terrific movie. The novel by William Trevor on which it…
Happy, Texas, directed by Mark Illsley, is an intermittently funny tale of two escaped convicts who steal a recreational vehicle…
The puzzling thing about Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Limey, is the very thing he puts to the fore in…
Like Felicia’s Journey, Patricia Rozema’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park is a film whose other virtues—in particular, the visual…
Music of the Heart is certainly heartwarming, though you may be inclined to object, as I do, to having your…
The best line in Random Hearts, adapted from the novel by Warren Adler by Kurt Luedtke and directed by Sydney…
The Story of Us by Rob Reiner attempts to do for marital difficulty what his earlier film, When Harry Met…
Based on real people and real events which took place in 1994, The Straight Story, directed by David Lynch and…
George Weigel
Witness To Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel is as comprehensive a biography of its subject as can be hoped for while the Pope still lives. Weigel, a journalist who came to the Pope’s attention after the publication of his book, The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, wrote Witness To Hope with his subject’s encouragement and assistance. Weigel had unprecedented access to the Pope’s correspondence (with, among others, world leaders including Mikhail Gorbachev). He reports lengthy conversations with many members of the Pope’s inner circle, and he occasionally reveals vivid details of the Pope’s daily life (for example, at the beginning of each day, the Pope’s adviser’s hear moans and groaning from John Paul’s solitary prayers in his private chapel).
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1999
Michael Cromartie
Dr. Nathan Hatch, Provost of the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Grant Wacker, professor of history of religion at Duke University Divinity School, and Hanna Rosin, religion reporter for the Washington Post, spoke at the September 1999 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of evangelicalism and religious freedom in America.