Tag: Redemption

  • Why I Loved “True Grit” and You Will Too (Spoiler Alert!)

    Superb acting (Oscar worthy turns by Hailee Steinfeld and Jeff Bridges), beautiful cinematography (stunning albeit stark scenes from Texas and Colorado), clever script (they didn’t did not use contractions), and the usual creative Coen Brothers craftsmanship with an unusual (for them) straight genre Western, made for an entertaining Thursday evening at the movies. True Grit…

  • The Evangelical Church: By Her Stripes We Are Killed

    Invariably, upon meeting another veteran of twenty-five years or more in the evangelical church, I say empathetically, “Let’s pull up our shirts in back and compare stripes.” Sad but true. I once heard the late great African-American pastor Dr. Fred G. Sampson say, “The church is the only organization that shoots her wounded.” Several of…