by acavender
July 1, 2011
Last weekend I finally had the chance to see the much-acclaimed film, Of Gods and Men. The film tells the story of the Trappist monks from the monastery at Tibhirine, Algeria (they were kidnapped and murdered in 1996 during the Algerian Civil War). Oddly enough, there’s only a bare minimum of graphic violence in the [...]
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by acavender
May 2, 2011
Well, I was going to write my first blog post in far too long on the discomfort I’ve been feeling over some of the reactions I’ve seen to Osama bin Laden’s death. But since Ari Kohen has already expressed it better than I could here and (at greater length) here, I’ll just direct readers to [...]
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Fidelity
by acavender July 1, 2011Last weekend I finally had the chance to see the much-acclaimed film, Of Gods and Men. The film tells the story of the Trappist monks from the monastery at Tibhirine, Algeria (they were kidnapped and murdered in 1996 during the Algerian Civil War). Oddly enough, there’s only a bare minimum of graphic violence in the [...]