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Greg Veltman

Greg Veltman and his wife Andrea live in Calgary, Alberta. While he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, he works as the Multi-Faith Chaplaincy Coordinator at Mount Royal University, and as a Research and Program Coordinator with the Jaffray Centre for Global Initiatives at Ambrose University. He is also a research associate with Race and Justice in Higher Education. Find out more at: www.gregveltman.wordpress.com

Screening Desires

How much of our view of "the good life" comes from the films we watch?

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Greg Veltman Feb 19, 2010

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Where is Home?

“Home” is tragically precarious and fragile, and is not easily sustained. Recent albums, books and films all share the same line of questioning: where is it?

Greg Veltman Dec 18, 2009

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A Serious Education

Dispelling education’s simple narrative, and venturing into perspective, suffering, fragility and love.

Greg Veltman Jul 3, 2009

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A parable beyond archetypes

It’s not the plot that surprises in the latest Star Trek film, but rather the more complicated characters than the simple archetypes of the franchise’s early years.

Greg Veltman Apr 9, 2009

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Film schooled

I challenge future teachers by having them read texts and watch films that complicate their assumptions—hoping that they will avoid both reserved cynicism and naive optimism.

Greg Veltman Mar 20, 2009

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Watching trailers

Humans are aesthetic creatures. We take in experience, time and space, through our senses. We then must use discernment to understand the qualities and meanings of those experiences. This means that we need to be mindful of our curiousity as well as good stewards of our time. Film trailers can help us with these two challenges.

Greg Veltman Apr 18, 2008

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Loss, fragility, and (maybe) hope

Snow Angels provides an artful and honest picture of how we hope and lose hope for redemption when we cannot find anything to hang on to but ourselves.

Greg Veltman Sep 14, 2007

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In search of good film: nine signposts

We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say—and to feel—"Yes, that is the way it is, or at least that is the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."...

Greg Veltman Sep 1, 2006 Making the most of college (first annual)

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Making the most of college: making friends for life (‘I want to be tangled up . . . in the thorns of love’)

col·lege (‘kä-lij) n. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin collegium, association. The students, faculty, and administration of such a school or institution. A society of scholars for study or instruction. A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties. To know and be known, to consider one’s life in the community that is a college.