Tag Archives: Christian worldview

Review: Cowboys and Aliens

Posted on August 8, 2011 by EDC

This week my dad and I went on our semi-annual trek to the movies and saw Cowboys & Aliens. Heading to the theater, I had already lowered my expectations, as Rotten Tomatoes had compiled reviews to only 44% positive (i.e. … Continue reading →

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Christians and Harry Potter

Posted on July 17, 2011 by EDC

In step with the release of the final Harry Potter movie, The Wall Street Journal has published a good article by Sarah Pulliam Bailey at about how Christians, for the most part, have “warmed-up” to the fantasy series of books and movies. To quickly summarize, … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Published

Posted on July 7, 2011 by EDC

Great news!  Forgotten, the short story I released in installments on my blog last fall, has been published in the online magazine, The Cross and the Cosmos.  This free, downloadable magazine aims to provide the best speculative fiction from a … Continue reading →

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Deists Ushered in the Modern World

Posted on April 15, 2011 by EDC

I’ve written before on the topic that faith and science can co-exist and compliment one another. There are some truths science is ill-equipped to discover that faith can illuminate and vice-versa.  As a Christ-follower I have no problem embracing either to find … Continue reading →

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Weaknesses

Posted on March 28, 2011 by EDC

This week Big Think released a short video by Julie Burstein profiling artist, Chuck Close; an inspiring man with a disability called “face blindness“.  You see, Close can’t recognize faces in three dimensions. Yet Close has taken his weakness and made … Continue reading →

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Digital Native Children

Posted on March 26, 2011 by EDC

Fifteen years ago, I remember visiting my friend John and being shocked to see his toddler reach for his computer’s mouse. Worried she might break something I warned my friend. He went on to explain to me that though she … Continue reading →

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15 Years From Now – Part 3 (Honor)

Posted on March 14, 2011 by EDC

Updating G.K. Chesterton’s masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, has had its joys as well as its challenges. Taking any story originally written and set in the first decade of the 20th Century and bringing it forward 125 years to … Continue reading →

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15 Years From Now – Part 2 (Technology)

Posted on March 12, 2011 by EDC

In my last post I shared how I’m attempting to update a classic novel published in 1908 to have a near future setting.  G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday was written in in the “present day” of the early … Continue reading →

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Tron: Legacy – A Three Part Review (Part 3 – The Message)

Posted on January 24, 2011 by EDC

In the first and second parts of my review of Tron: Legacy, I talked about the things I liked and did not like about the movie.  But what are the messages in T:L?  There are many I can recall, but … Continue reading →

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Tron: Legacy – A Three Part Review (Part 2 – The Bad)

Posted on January 22, 2011 by EDC

So was Tron: Legacy anything more than ear and eye candy?  Unfortunately, the story was a little flat, and it felt very Lucasian – my term for the plot being the shortest route between two action set pieces.  As a … Continue reading →

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