Documentary, On DVD, Netflix Streaming, Amazon Instant Video, iTunes, Google Play and other streaming services. Tom Shadyac, comedy writer and director of Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, and Bruce Almighty, has a serious bicycle accident, suffers a concussion with painful side effects, and begins a spiritual quest for the meaning of life. Shadyac [...]
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Movie: Starred Up – tough stuff, hard to watch but profoundly moving
"Starred Up manages to make these scarred men characters that you care about. O’Connell and Mendelsohn give great performances that are full of rage and regret, with forces that push them both against and towards one another. This film is currently available only by streaming, but I imagine it may find a few screens in [...]
EOC Focusing on Reversing Clergy Age Trend
At Annual Conference in June, 13 elders and two deacons were ordained. The average age of those ordinands was 39 – the same as the average age of the six elders and one deacon ordained at Annual Conference 2013. Those figures stand in stark contrast to the findings of the annual Lewis Center for Church [...]
