'Volition'

Short Film Captures the Personal Implications of Imagio Dei



Here is a Film that you must see! It is just fifteen minutes in length but I saw it at Randy Alcorn's Blog and it was pretty powerful. Recently an editor at one of our local weeklies editorialized that Abortion is Not Murder because kids from 'religious' homes are having them and abortion foes are not resisting as they would if someone were gunning down a busload of elementary school children. His argument fails to see that throughout history other great evils have been accepted by even good people in a society.

Just because a course of action is popularly accepted and most follow it does not make it less of an evil. Many Christians owned slaves and I'm sure there were fine principled people serving in the German government. Can we legitimately argue that the holocaust was not murder because church members were working in the camps? Volition does a great job of showing how the right choice has often been the road less travelled in historical perspective.

"Folow Your Heart" or Lead It?!

New Movie Lays Down a Challenge

I don't know how many movies these days carry the theme: "Follow Your Heart." Happiness and fulfillment always materialize somehow in the relationship of the moment developed on screen. Somehow that formula works well in film, but leaves a trail of disaster when applied in real life. If dogs made movies, I'm convinced that they would have the theme: "Follow Your Nose." The results... well, that's what the tomato juice is kept for.

This weekend I saw Fireproof and it was a breath of fresh air. It follows the life of a fire fighter who's courage and resolve are put to the test as he discovers that love for his family requires the same steely resolve that lets him go into burning buildings to rescue strangers. Indeed, Caleb, the hero, needs to learn to lead his heart just like he pushes himself in situations of danger.

There are plenty of moments where self-recognition gets a bit uncomfortable. The writer really knows human nature and that is part of why this is a meaningful film. There are some well done action scenes as well. The rescue scenes are gripping -- especially if you understand the dangers involved in a structure fire. Sherwood Pictures is to be commended for this project.

'Expelled' Opens April 18th

Is Legitimate Inquiry Supressed in Our Institutions?

Ben Stein looks at a subject which has long intrigued me, Intelligent Design and how it is often being denied a place at the table when it comes to serious discussions in our major institutions of higher learning and research. Expelled opens April 18th in theatres around the country.


Storms on Jupiter.

As an artist, it is important to learn observation skills when it comes to nature. the Fibbonacci Number Sequence is seen in the spiral of a galaxy, water going down a drain and the hair pattern on a child's head. Complex mechanisms exist in nature, such as the eye, for example. How could they evolve without some oversight as they would not function when not wholly complete.

This past weekend a man who is working on an assistive technology robot at Carnagie-Mellon showed us videos of his 'robot' attempting to grasp a doorknob and open it. Let's just say these researchers were well pleased when the robot hit the doorknob. They have a long way to go before it will open the doorknob. There's more to hand-eye coordination than you would imagine. Do you ever just stop and appreciate the well-tuned software that you've depended on all your life?

More important, do you think of what it might mean to have been so created? Stein's movie gives us a lot to think about.

Expelled Movie Website