By Dr. Charlie W. Starr December 2012 means Christmas and hobbits, and they are more closely connected than you might think. Mid-December marks the premiere of the first of three films based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s popular children’s book, The Hobbit, which will be released over the next year and a half. Tolkien […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr Last month I wrote about fairy tales and myth as sources of truth. This month let’s consider the ways fairy tales don’t show us a true picture of reality. The Possibilities Let’s get one false view out of the way up front—that fairy tales are happy stories and […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr Last June, Americans watched with fascination as the United Kingdom celebrated Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee—the 60th anniversary of her coronation. I didn’t watch the festivities, but I had a reason to be interested. As a boy of 13 in 1977, I visited England for the first time during the […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr The Hunger Games was a film phenomenon in March and April. It brought in a great deal of money during a time of year when movies usually don’t do so, and it brought in the highest weekend box office numbers for four weeks in a row. I can’t remember […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr I seldom read New York Times best sellers. I’m “trendy” when it comes to movies, but not so much with books. I’m even less likely to read a book with religious themes that’s been approved by the New York Times. Books like that usually have as much value as […]
