Category Archives: The Gospel of the Kingdom

John Steinbeck Goes to Church

 Penguin Classics commemorated the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize (1962) with a new edition of his best-loved works, including Travels with Charley. In Search of America: “At age fifty-eight, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious …

March 10, 2013 – 3:27 pm | By Paul | Posted in Books, from Paul, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments (0)

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL. A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

My review:   “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”  - Hamlet (1.5.166-7)

March 10, 2013 – 7:21 am | By Paul | Posted in Books, from Paul, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments (0)

A CAROL FOR CLEVELAND: A Christmas Classic

Having been involved in several myself, I can attest to that fact that nothing is more exhilarating or harrowing than the production of a new play. Without a track record, all involved proceed on a wing and a prayer, with faith in great hopes and detailed plans. To produce a new play at Christmas time …

December 24, 2012 – 2:32 pm | By Paul | Posted in from Paul, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Now on Kindle…

Three of my books are now available for Kindle:                                                                                             …

November 27, 2012 – 8:34 pm | By Paul | Posted in Books, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology, Web Sites | Comments (0)

Salmon Fishing in Yemen and The Little Engine that Could

In the film, Salmon Fishing in Yemen (2011) Sheik Muhammed of Yemen’s unlikely dream – salmon fishing in Yemen- comes true due to the efforts of Dr. Alfred “Fred” Jones, a fisheries expert, and the sheik’s British agent, Harriet Chetwode-Talbot. The film has been praised as a film about “faith.” But what kind of faith? …

November 14, 2012 – 10:38 am | By Paul | Posted in Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom | Comments (0)

THE FOUR QUARTETS: T.S. Eliot’s Words Made Flesh

The promotional blurb read In a performance that “embodies an exquisite existential tension suspended between self and poetry,” John Farrell’s recitation of T.S. Eliot’s poetic masterwork brings us into the calm eye of Eliot’s turbulent philosophical and religious questing. Deeply concerned with humankind’s approach to the divine, Four Quartets is an extended meditation on our …

October 29, 2012 – 4:34 pm | By Paul | Posted in Poetry, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

BASEBALL AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD

October is when baseball winds down and football starts up. George Carlin’s classic routine “BASEBALL, FOOTBALL, AND HOW WE HAVE CHANGED” comes to mind. In fact, baseball has caused many people to philosophize, including A. Bartlett Giamatti, the former President of Yale University and, more importantly, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Mr. Giamatti …

October 2, 2012 – 4:25 am | By Paul | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, Sports, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

EAST OF EDEN (1955): Life without God

 ”I can’t believe your fickleness – how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing a variant message!  It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God.” St Paul, Letter to the Galatians[i] Even …

September 25, 2012 – 3:50 am | By Paul | Posted in Books, from Paul, Men and Women, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments (0)

MARGARET (2011): Life without Law

Margaret isn’t a character in Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret (2011). Lisa is the name of the main character in this film. Margaret characterizes Lisa by contrasting the Margaret of Gerald Manley Hopkins’ poem “Spring and Fall” (1880) to the film’s Lisa. Lisa is a student at a posh New York private school. In her English class …

September 18, 2012 – 4:16 am | By Paul | Posted in from Paul, Movies, Poetry, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments (1)

BILLY GRAHAM ON 9/11

President and Mrs. Bush, I want to say a personal word on behalf of many people. Thank you, Mr. President, for calling this Day of Prayer and Remembrance. We needed it at this time. We come together today to affirm our conviction that God cares for us, whatever our ethnic, religious or political background may …

September 11, 2012 – 4:17 am | By Paul | Posted in Art, Current Events, History, Politics, Quotations, Talks, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, World Affairs | Comments (0)