By Dr. Charlie W. Starr Everyone’s list of favorite films is different, including their list of most loved Christian films. Picking only 10 to share with you was challenging for me, so I limited myself to movies made in the last 30 years (leaving out such giants as The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur) […]
Ten Great Works of Christian Literature
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr As with any kind of art, in literature there’s bad, good, and great. There’s plenty of Christian fiction that falls in all three categories. Yet even what I’d call poorly done literature has brought people to Christ. In that sense, it’s invaluable. Today I’d like to discuss some great […]
A “How Art Works” Encore
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr In 2011 I wrote a yearlong series on the purpose and function of the arts, something I’d done a little bit from time to time beforehand and want to keep doing from time to time still. Art appeals to the imagination and the imagination mimics the senses. When done […]
C. S. Lewis’s Enduring Legacy
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr This month marks the 50th anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis who, just shy of his 65th birthday, passed away on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Numerous books have been released about Lewis this year, and half a dozen or more conferences have been held […]
A Super Movie
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr Jane Curtin once ended a very old Saturday Night Live skit by saying something like, “Next time on the show we consider the question, ‘Who would win if God and Superman had a fight?’” The answer is God. That settled, the question is a reminder of Superman’s religious origins, […]