March 16, 2008
FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Taking Film Seriously
By LeRoy Lawson ________ Five Books About Film Written by Christians Finding God in the Movies, by Catherine M. Barsotti and Robert K. Johnston (Baker Books, 2004) ReViewing the Movies, by Peter Fraser and Vernon Edwin Neal (Crossway Books, 2000) Reel Spirituality, second edition, by Robert K. Johnston (Baker Academic, 2006) Faith and Film, by Edward N. McNulty (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007) Through a Screen Darkly, by Jeffrey Overstreet (Regal, 2007) Â Â When television was new and commercial films were viewed with deep suspicion by all right-thinking, Bible-believing Christians, the young idealist I was then would never have





