March 1, 2008 Having a message need not spoil the medium

“Hail, thou ever-blessed morn! Hail, redemption’s happy dawn!” (From a hymn by Edward Caswall, 1858)The release in recent months of a spate of faith-based films poses a quandary for filmgoers. It is simply this: Can a...

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February 1, 2008 Three words for love

New DVD releases depict unique expressions of love

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November 1, 2007 Hearing that still, small voice

The American clergyman James H. Aughey (1828-1911) said that, “conscience is the voice of God in the soul” of man. After all, it is the still, small voice of conscience that lets us discern right from wrong in our conduct, intentions, and character and prompts us to do what is right.

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October 1, 2007 ‘Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those ... ’

In the film Forgiveness: Stories For Our Time, director Johanna Lunn takes on the subject of, yes, forgiveness. Timely indeed, as the world struggles with an impossible war that was meant to avenge 9/11, a terrorist attack of...

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May 1, 2007 End of slave trade remembered in books and film

A handful of newly-released books, a mainstream film and a number of special events marked the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, many of them taking advantage of March 25, the day the...

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December 1, 2006 Classic story retold

Keisha Castle-Hughes, as Mary, brings food to children in The Nativity Story. Before the film’s release, an evangelical group and the distributor arranged for special advance screenings for select media and “Christian leaders and...

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June 1, 2006 Anglican Video recognized at festival

Anglican Video’s Topahdewin: The Gladys Cook Story, a film about an aboriginal Anglican woman who survived a damaged childhood to become a prominent drug and alcohol abuse counselor, won a Bronze Award in the documentary category...

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June 1, 2006 Scratch for truth

Rev. Bryony Morrison, from Epping, scratches the first of 250,000 cards scheduled for distribution to all United Kingdom cinemas in May. Part of a nationwide campaign by U.K. churches in response to the The Da Vinci Code film,...

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April 7, 2006 Book and DVD offer different perspectives on Holy Week

Published just in time for Easter, The Last Week refers to the final seven days of Christ’s life and chronicles “a story everyone thinks they know too well and most do not seem to know at all.” The last would seem to be a bit of...

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April 5, 2006 Documentary resonates with police

The Toronto Police Service, one of Canada’s largest police forces, has sought and been granted permission to use an award-winning documentary by Anglican Video as a reference material for its training program for city police officers.

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