The Narthex
Reflections on "Paradise Road"
A film about war's victims probing beyond hatred to sympathy and eventually love
By David Daintree | November 14th 2022 10:00 PMI recently watched the 1997 Bruce Beresford film Paradise Road at home on DVD. As the standard of free-to-air TV continues to plummet gutterwards, I find the urge to fossick through our old disc collections grows all the stronger! Paradise Road is a triumph of the Australian film industry. It…
READ FULL BLOG POSTThe Greatest Songwriter of All Time? Surely, King David
David's psalms have endured, appear in literature, and are known globally. Jesus sang them!
By James Thunder | November 3rd 2022 1:47 PMMy nominee for the greatest songwriter of all time is King David of Israel (c. 1000 B.C.). There are 150 psalms in the Bible’s Book of Psalms. The psalms are songs; the title of the book refers to “instrumental music” or to the words accompanying music. Furthermore, there are inscriptions…
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A walk through beloved music leads to one artist 'after God's own heart'
By James Thunder | November 1st 2022 12:31 PMHow would we answer the question “Who’s the greatest songwriter of all time?” For a moment let us revisit our musical past. What about Andrew Lloyd Weber (b. 1948) with his Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968; Broadway 1982), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), Evita (1978), Cats (1981), and Phantom…
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