By Dr. Charlie W. Starr I am a C. S. Lewis fanatic. I’ve read all his works, been to his home in England, and even written a book about one of his stories. For an expert, it can be humbling when an amateur points out something you’ve missed. The book was The Lion, the […]
Once upon a prison
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr The surprise hit of the 2011-12 television season was Sunday night’s Once Upon a Time. It is literally half fantasy and half realistic mystery because it takes place in two worlds: a fantasyland where all our favorite storybook characters live and a town in Maine where those characters have […]
A year of Christian-themed films
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr While spending last year writing a series on the purpose of art for The Lookout, I missed opportunities to talk about several movies, especially those featuring Christian themes. I’ve said before that the trend took off with The Passion of the Christ, and I’m happy to see that it […]
Before they were stars
Dr. Charlie W. Starr I’d like to kick off this slightly new column on Arts and Media with some Christmas movie memories and a lesson they teach. In an age of television and film, Christmas traditions have come to include everyone sitting down to watch favorite family Christmas movies. To older classics like It’s […]
The tree falls
By Dr. Tim Woodroof In the fall of 1993, James Lane was driving his Volkswagen on the back roads of the Oregon coast. He was 41, born in the year 1952. Around the time of James’s birth, a seedpod dropped from one of Oregon’s towering western red cedars and took root in the loamy […]
