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Oct 17, 2008

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Darkness, the silver screen, and the human soul

Holocaust feature films are powerful because film is story, and good stories tend to be about individuals at odds with the world around them. The personal transformation of the complex and profoundly imperfect man in Schindler’s List might very easily be our own story. We are all of us ruined palaces and glorious ruins.

Oct 10, 2008

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Rules of thumb

We asked Comment contributors to send us very short statements of practical wisdom that they use and are willing to stand by, based on their own experience or oral traditions in their communities.

Embed

Oct 10, 2008

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Embed

This piece, entitled Embed (2008), is part of my current work in the Natural Motif Series. The works employ detailed specimen drawings of dead plant matter such as husks and twigs along with snippets of decorative plant-based patterns from Victorian era wallpapers and...

Oct 5, 2008

Week of October 5, 2008

The Work Research Foundation - publisher of Comment - is marking its new name, look and style with re-launch events coming up across North America. Catch us first in Ottawa, Ontario next Thursday, October 16!At the terrific CPYU Bookshelf, a new resource from Derek...

Oct 3, 2008

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How am I defined?

I could not discover who I was, apart from my experiences and accomplishments. What did it mean to feel and care as I did? What were the passions that had been planted so deep within me? Who was this God who was calling me to a vocation deeper than any job or career I could pursue?

Oct 3, 2008

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Q&A with Jim Gilmore, “Business Consultant”

I teach classes on shopping! I know a lot about why people buy things and I try to help people who sell things to do a better job. And not just a better job of selling things, like physical toys, but a better job of selling what I call experiences, like going to Disneyland.

Healing Waters

Oct 3, 2008

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Healing Waters

"Healing Waters" is one of several pieces from my senior student exhibition at Redeemer University College, 2007. The show, "Marked Places" visually documented various places along my spiritual journey. This piece rested in the middle of other charcoals exhibiting...

Sep 26, 2008

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“Frozen River” and the human condition

The eternal dynamic of evil, guilt, and mercy gives Frozen River its spine. It is not a perfect film, but somehow even its flaws lend it credibility and authenticity as a portrait of the weakness and grandeur of the human heart. This is the oldest theme in literature, but it is also the most important, a fact that the last eighteen months of American cinema have shown.