2012 and Eschatology: It’s Not the End of the World

2012 and Eschatology: It’s Not the End of the World

Did we really need another film about the end of the world?  Apparently, yes. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Roland Emmerich is the director of such end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it kinds of films such as Independence Day, Godzilla and, most...
Sweeney Todd: Defiled Eden

Sweeney Todd: Defiled Eden

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.  -John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1:254-255 The human heart is homesick.  Homesick for the memory of something beautiful, now lost.  The Hebrew scriptures tells us of Eden’s paradise: a...