Category Archives: Pop Culture

Gimme Shelter: Stop Dancing With Your Demons (Movie Review)

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

Based on a true story, Gimme Shelter shines a light on a grim world where the foster care system, homelessness, drug abuse, and teen pregnancy collide. Vanessa Hudgens stars as Apple, who finally flees her drug addict mother (Rosario Dawson) to reconnect … Continue reading →

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Fault In Our Stars: We’re More Than Side Effects (Book Review)

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

The Fault in Our Stars finds its inspiration in a young adult blend of Shakespeare and cancer survival, mixed up in a relationship between Hazel and Augustus. Told from Hazel’s perspective, the book tracks their romance, their banter, and their struggle … Continue reading →

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Sunday’s Sermon Today: Buried Treasure (Matthew 13:44-46)

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

Have you ever seen something that you just had to have? Maybe it was a purchase, like that piece of art or that shiny new car. How do you go about acquiring it? Will you beg, borrow, or steal? Will … Continue reading →

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Lone Survivor: Real Hospitality (Movie Review)

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

Operation Red Wings was an unmitigated disaster, if Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell’s (Mark Wahlberg) book, Lone Survivor, is to be believed. Sent in with three of his fellow Seals (Taylor Hitsch, Emile Hirsch, and Ben Foster) to scout out a Taliban leader, … Continue reading →

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12 Years A Slave: Can Art Change The World? (Movie Review)

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

It was a big year for films based on true stories about racial relations in the United States. In 2013, merely weeks into January, Michael B. Jordan played Oscar Grant III in Fruitvale Station, the victim of a police-related shooting … Continue reading →

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Fruitvale Station: The Ghosts Of The Past (Movie Review)

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

On January 1, 2009, a twenty-two-year-old man named Oscar Grant III died after been shot by BART officers in Oakland, California’s Fruitvale Station, part of the public transportation system. An ex-con, an ex-gang member, and an ex-drug user, Grant appears … Continue reading →

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Gimme Shelter: The Hands Of Jesus, Interview With Kathy DiFiore

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

Have you ever been homeless? A few weeks ago, I watched Vanessa Hudgens’ new movie, Gimme Shelter, about a young lady named Apple and her road from homeless teenager to mother to established member of the community. Her story is Ron … Continue reading →

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The Butler: Two Roads Divided (Movie Review)

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

Over the last year, I’ve seen 42, Fruitvale Station, 12 Years A Slave, and Django Unchained. Each of them presented a time period in American history where racism and prejudice caused great pain, even death, as the country struggled through toward civil rights for everyone … Continue reading →

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Ten: What Words Do You Follow? (Book Review)

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

Every few years, the public eye seems to focus in on a courtroom somewhere in the United States where one group of people is battling another group of people over whether or not the Ten Commandments should be displayed. Sometimes, … Continue reading →

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Sunday’s Sermon Today: Jesus and the N.A.P. (Mark 4:35-41)

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Jacob Sahms

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” So said FDR when considering the United States’ national perspective and outlook in 1932. He was talking about the ways that the U.S. would move forward post-Great Depression, but we’ve … Continue reading →

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