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English: Steven Spielberg at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Steven Spielberg ’s masterpiece motion picture, Schindler’s List , is a true-life chronicle of the German Nazi, Oskar Schindler , who used his connections with the Nazi regime in the Second World War to preserve the lives of hundreds of Jewish prisoners. When Hitler set his unstable mind on the annihilation of the Jews he had them sent to concentration camps where the prisoners did hard labor until they were executed en masse in gas chambers. Schindler, even as a Nazi himself, grew to find this reprehensible. But he couldn’t just come out and say so. To resist Herr Hitler was to risk finding yourself in a concentration camp, or dead. So, Schindler used his entrepreneurial acumen as a ruse to save the lives of the condemned Jews. He procured a steelworks factory that had formerly produced pots and pans and converted it into a munitions factory, cranking out countless casin...

Cover of Mere Christianity “ Super 8 ” thrives on something that’s been missing from many of our summer blockbusters as of late.  When you realize that this same element is too often missing from our faith....wonder! An acknowledged throwback to the early science-fiction films of Steven Spielberg (who serves as a producer),  “Super 8”  follows a group of teens in 1979 Ohio who sneak out late at night to make a no-budget horror flick.  Without warning, a top-secret military train comes rushing out of the dark and derails. The astonished kids watch as something – I dare not say what – emerges from the scattered wreckage. “Super 8” has big explosions and intricate special effects. But what it’s best at is something less tangible: creating a genuine sense of wonder. “Super 8” captures that rush of amazement that washes over us when we encounter something powerful and mysterious. We feel a burst of awe, even if we don’t fully understand what we’re witnessing...