‘ Pop Culture ’ Category
Movies, Pop Culture
During these days I've had several opportunities to watch Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." I kept wondering where he got the idea that the temple soldiers hit Jesus so hard that this latter fell down from a ...
Church in the World, Pop Culture
Cartoons can be a great way to bring across the message of the Scriptures. This it does through a rereading of the Biblical message and present it to a "visual" generation in an attractive way. But there is also a ...
Cartoons and the Bible
{ No Comment \ Tags: cartoons, genesis \ Mar12 }
Movies, Pop Culture
In a previous blog, I have shown how a scene in the TV movie "Jesus of Nazareth" rewrites the gospel of Luke and provides us with an interpretation of the some themes found in the same gospel. In the ...
Retelling the Gospel: The Greatest Story Every Told
{ No Comment \ Tags: gospel \ Feb24 }
Movies, Pop Culture
Many miles from yesterday before you reach tomorrowwhere the time is always just todayThere's a lost horizon waiting to be foundthere's a lost horizon where the sound of gunsdoesn't pound in your ears, anymore.
(Burt Bacharach, "The Lost Horizon")Behold, God's dwelling ...
Between Memory and Hope
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Movies, Pop Culture
I don't usually go to the movies especially during Christmas because of the Metro Manila Festival which in recent years have not been showing anything worth while. This year I made an exception for "Fr. Jejemon" and the ...
Fr. Jejemon
{ No Comment \ Tags: jejemon, priesthood \ Aug21 }
Movies, Pop Culture
Finally, I was able to watch the movie! It was shown a couple of times on cable just before Christmas but I wasn't able to see it then. It was during the Christmas break that I was ...
C. S. Lewis in the Movies
{ No Comment \ Tags: None \ Jun14 }
Pop Culture, Theology
The refrain of a Black Eyed Peas' song goes
Evil and the Problem Thereof
{ No Comment \ Tags: evil \ May29 }
Pop Culture
If you think that basketball has no place in a friar's blog, guess again. Did you know that John Paul II is a Harlem Globetrotter? A month after John Paul II delivered his homily on the Jubilee of ...
Basketball, John Paul II and World Peace
{ No Comment \ Tags: basketball, harlem globetrotters, john paul ii \ Mar17 }
Pop Culture
I am not a Don Moen fan and I don't mind listening to his music, but this morning I saw the lyrics of "God Will Make A Way" for the first time. I must say that it sent my ...
God Will Make a Way
{ No Comment \ Tags: don moen \ Jan29 }
Pop Culture, TV
I bought the CDs of Franco Zeffirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth" as part of my Lenten viewing.
In addition, I was hoping to use a picture from the movie in one of the presentations I am preparing for a seminar workshop, but ...
