Items tagged reality

• Life's like an onion

  As an animated film, Shrek defies the norms set by sweet and predictable Disney films.

• Dreaming as a gift

  Taking time to develop a vision for our lives can simultaneously break and mend our hearts.

• Reality servanthood

  Is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition philanthropic?or pornographic?

• The masks we wear

  On the various functions of and responses to masks.

• The Thing

  Confessions of a chronic dabbler.

• Thoughts on things

  A collection of short reflections on things collected by Tala Azar Strauss.

• Paradise wanted?

  Summer vacations past provoke reflection on a love-hate relationship with ‘perfect’ places.

• Splendor in the grass

  Ode on intimations of mortality from recollecting Little Miss Sunshine.

• Reality and hope

  A pastor presents a message of Advent hope to a small congregation in the middle of uncertainty.
  

• Sinking down

  On gaining a "sense of place" through knowledge of nightmares.

• Seeing our delusions die

  On dismantling the securing illusions of ourselves and others.

• The food of the future

  A Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle for every church…or a new way that leads to old understanding?

• Out of darkness: A Mumbai story

  A review of the film Slumdog Millionaire, which tells the story of a boy who rises to fame on India's hottest game show.