David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation. Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2017. Reviewed by Jack Hoehn  |  22 April 2020   | I had recently seen David Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament (The New Testament—A Translation, same publisher and date as this book being reviewed) […]

by Sam Chen | 16 November 2018 | “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), French writer, poet, journalist, pioneering aviator It was still dark when he approached the monolith. He had gazed at it many times, but […]

by S.M Chen  |  12 September 2018  | “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), quoting 19th century clergyman Theodore Parker Certain events are so horrific, they deserve to be burnished in memory. And resurrected from time to time to remind younger generations. For, as Spanish […]

by S.M. Chen  |  5 August 2018  | In 2004, the “Oregonian” ran a series about a father and daughter who had lived for 4 years in Forest Park, a 5200-acre public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of Portland, OR. 5 years later, author Peter Rock published a novel, My Abandonment, based on […]

by S.M. Chen  |  4 July 2018  | “No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.” —Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948) – lawyer, politician, founder of Pakistan RBG are the initials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A 97 minute documentary has been made of her life and career. Why should I view […]

by S.M. Chen  |  22 June 2018  | “Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children – these are the only investments that never fail.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) – American writer, naturalist Not many films garner a 99% ranking at Rotten Tomatoes, a film website (but one of many). Here’s one that did. […]