6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (894+ words) (ANALYSIS) For most of his 92 years, Wendell Berry farmed his Lane’s Landing homestead in Henry County, Kentucky, using methods that embraced the land. He preferred draft horses to diesel-powered tractors and used crop rotation and manure fertilizer to naturally nurture…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (353+ words) (ANALYSIS) As you would imagine, I have been spending quite a bit of time talking to folks about Dolly Parton, the queen of East Tennessee. I learned she had died while gazing around inside an airplane approaching the Rocky Mountains....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (591+ words) (ANALYSIS) When Robert Lee Parton died in 2000, the illiterate former sharecropper asked his large musical family to sing “If We Never Meet Again (This Side of Heaven),” his favorite country-gospel song. “If we never meet again this side of heaven…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (545+ words) (REVIEW) More and more faith-based films are following the “Elmer Gantry” plot. Based on the 1927 book and remade into the Oscar-nominated 1960 film starring Burt Lancaster, “Elmer Gantry” follows a con artist who becomes a revival preacher and finds enormous success…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (910+ words) (ANALYSIS) Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has brought Homer’s epic tale back to the big screen. The film is the latest retelling of a story that is almost 3,000 years old. But why do these ancient Greek stories continue to captivate new…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (719+ words) (ANALYSIS) When Dolly Parton stepped onto a stage in Tennessee after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the American South in 2024, she did what she had done throughout her life: She turned compassion into action. With her familiar blonde hair and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (615+ words) Only 11% of Norwegians read the Bible every day. While those numbers have grown in recent years, it remains relatively low. One of those Norwegians who should have read up on Scripture this summer is soccer star Erling Haaland. The Manchester…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (601+ words) Dolly Parton, the country music singer, songwriter and actress whose rags-to-riches story, talent and large-than-life persona helped turn her into a cultural icon, died Tuesday in Nashville. She was 80. Parton’s family announced her death in a social media video post....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (387+ words) (REVIEW) Faith-based films are in a time of fascinating transition. Shows like “The Chosen” and “House of David” are giving Christian films and filmmakers a mainstream respect that they’ve never really had before. At the same time, the faith-based audience…...

3+ week, 5+ min ago   (939+ words) American actor Mark Ruffalo on Saturday denied that he is antisemitic, one day after Paramount accused the actor of invoking antisemitic tropes in his campaign against the studio’s $111 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. The clash lands as Paramount…...