I’m hoping not to get any letters of complaint from any X-Men fanatics out there with this piece, let me first remind everyone that I’m a comic book fan as well, and the X-Men stories are epics that, for me are as important culturally as the Lord of The Rings (no, I did not just [...]
Contemplative Youth Ministry by Mark Yaconelli
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An encouraging trend in youth ministry over the last 5-10 years has been the growth of contemplative practices in youth ministry. one of the real pioneers in this in the usa has been mark yaconelli who developed and ran the youth ministry and spirituality project for 7 years. the question he wanted to explore was [...]
Contemplative Youth Ministry by Mark Yaconelli
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The central problem in sharing the Christian faith with young people doesn’t concern words; it’s deeper than that. The real crisis facing those of us who seek to share faith with youth is this: we don’t know how to be with our kids. we don’t know how to be with ourselves. we don’t know how to be with [...]
Contemplative Youth Ministry – Interview with Mark Yaconelli
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Mark Yaconelli has released his long awaited a book titled contemplative youth ministry. It is a wonderful book. If you are involved in youth ministry you should get it. Actually, I think you should get it and read it if you are in any kind of leadership in church. This isn’t really another model to [...]
X-Men The Last Stand
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Phoenix: You would die for them. Wolverine: Not for them. For you. First of all people need to get over their preconceptions about their precious X-men, they need to understand that this movie doesn’t care if the Phoenix was an alien entity that took control of Jean (and not a dual personality), they also need [...]
What Women Want
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A Chicago advertising executive, Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) gets a whole new outlook on life when a fluke accident gives him the ability to read women’s minds. At first, this ‘gift’ provides Nick with way too much information, but he begins to realise that he can use it to good effect, especially when it comes [...]
Waking Ned Devine
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Beach, The
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Time magazine termed this movie a ‘contemplative action movie, an interior thriller’. It’s set on an idyllic island (based on Ko Pha-Ngan island, off the eastern coast of Thailand), with ‘beautiful people living in an unruffled commune, the symbiosis of modern man and primal nature’. A group of young peace-loving internationals seek to create paradise [...]
Bone Collector, The
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The Bone Collector is a ‘whodunnit’ film about a serial killer in New York, who leaves cryptic clues at the scenes of murders. Denzel Washington plays the role of a forensic criminologist, Lincoln Rhyme, crippled in the line of duty, is confined to bed and dependent on round the clock medical supervision. He is pressed [...]
Green Mile, The
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The film explores the relationship between Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), a prison guard on Death Row (E block) at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, and a prisoner John Coffey (Michael Clark Duncan). The film is based on a six part serialised story by Stephen King (1995). The story deals with trust, love, compassion, and miracles that happen [...]
