Canter Bridge

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To call Keith Green a prophet may seem the product of an unguarded moment, particularly if ‘prophet’ is up there beside ‘flawless’ on your conceptual shelving. Yet a slow-and-steady listen-through of this two-disc compilation does more than take me back to my teenage years, when Green plausibly had as much influence as anyone on the shaping of my adolescent faith. It reacquaints me with his prophetic impact on a generation of mostly young Christians in this country and the United Kingdom. (more…)

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American Legacy is subtitled ‘The magazine of African-American history and culture’, a perfect tag line for a high-quality magazine that does not so much celebrate a shade of skin color as it does the achievement of African Americans throughout the course of American history. (more…)

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As I settle in to write this review, perfectly suitable used copies of this early Naxos CD are going for a dollar on amazon.com. Where do you find value like that? It’s like scratching around for an affordable one-room apartment and then stumbling on a tidy mansion whose owner will turn it over to you for $199/month. (more…)

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Harrison Ford shines in this lingering over the close-quarter differences between Pennsylvania’s Amish people and the ‘English’ life that by contrast seems so rude in this 1985 screen gem. Yet twenty-two years later, it is the young Kelly McGillis who nearly melts the screen with this early performance as Rachel, the Amish widow who takes in Harrison’s ‘John Book’ and grows into love with a fugitive from ‘the city’ whose own heart grows entwined with the Amish way. (more…)

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One longs for a movie that treats a great artist’s life as something other than the ravings of a madman. (more…)

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Some people hear things others never do. Of these, a few write them down. Of these, a small number create a theme and variations upon it that cohere and enthrall. (more…)

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Although the UK-released EMI version of this twenty-track album that I own is subtitled ‘Music for Pleasure’, I must confess that I approached the task of this review with less than pleasure-filled thoughts. I came away from it with the same mixed bag of sentiments. (more…)

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The math tells a story.

The 20 songs on this UK EMI anthology add up to 49 minutes and 41 seconds of music. That’s 2 minutes and 48 seconds, just over half of length of today’s average rock, pop, or folk offering. Could it be that 2 and 3/4 minutes was about all a listener could take of tunes like ‘Surfer Girl’ and ‘I’m so Young’?

Maybe. (more…)

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Stephen Spielberg’s Schindler’s List is simply the finest motion picture ever made. (more…)

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