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This is Caravaggio

Annabel Howard and Iker Spozio

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Mercurial, saturnine, scandalous and unpredictable, Caravaggio - as a man, as a character and as an...

Black Madonna: A Womanist Look at Mary of Nazareth

Courtney Hall Lee

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The figure of the Virgin Mary comes loaded with baggage and preconceptions. She is usually depicted...

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Are We Still Friends

Randall Goodgame

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t's picnic time for Doug the Slug and Sparky the Bug! But when Doug suddenly finds himself alone...

Rachel King (13 KP) rated The Centurion's Wife (Acts of Faith, #1) in Books

Feb 11, 2019

This book was a wonderful surprise in both its accuracy in utilizing the Biblical account, as well as its mastery in enlivening the recorded events pulled from the Bible by weaving in the fictional story of Leah. I have read these parts of the Bible more times than I can count, but this novel made the events fresh and exciting, as if I were living in the time period and watching them first hand. It made me realize as I read it how much I take for granted in having the completed Bible, which those first believers did not have. I could relate quite easily to some of the characters, especially the portrayal of Mary Magdalene. I also especially loved how the authors described the scene at Pentacost, as well as the allusions to the wedding in Revelation using Leah's wedding plans.
This book is the first book in the series Acts of Faith, which I like because not only are all the loose threads not accounted for, but also because I would love to see other Biblical characters portrayed by these authors, such as Paul. I look forward to continuing the series with the next book, The Hidden Flame.
This is how Christian fiction should be written, in my humble opinion. The beliefs and doubts of the characters are real and believable - even to the point of looking messy and contradictory. Their faith hasn't been softened and molded by political correctness, too afraid to quote more than a few fee-good verses from Psalms or even use the name of Jesus. A Christian is not a one-dimensional type-cast description, and neither should the characters in a Christian fiction novel be.

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Sacred Secrets: Freemasonry, the Bible and Christian Faith

Mike Neville

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Masonic 'secrets' are of great interest to a wide audience - whether Freemasons or not. The...

The Women of The Bible Speak

Shannon Bream

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The women of the Bible lived timeless stories—by examining them, we can understand what it means...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Battlestar Galactica (1978) in Movies

Mar 17, 2019 (Updated Mar 17, 2019)

Battlestar Galactica (1978)

1978 | Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.2

(24 Ratings)

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Theatrical version of the pilot episode of Glen A Larson's Mormons-in-space Star Wars knock-off (Lucas sued). Somewhere 'beyond the heavens' the Twelve Colonies of Man are betrayed to the evil Cylons; leader Adama (Lorne Greene) must get his Charlton Heston freak on and lead the survivors to the Promised Land (i.e., Earth).

Looks great for the first ten minutes, until it becomes apparent that they only have about three minutes of special effects which are going to be endlessly recycled. The actual story weaves between the tone of a cod-biblical epic and a fairly cheesy soap, but not unengagingly. The fact this is made up of about three different episodes stitched together is obvious, though. It's all kind of clumsy, but still oddly charismatic and enjoyable; more fun than the version with Bob Dylan.