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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.