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Jesus is my gravity

by Cindy Maybeck

At first the film Gravity seemed too fantastic.  I mean when would I be dressed like an astronaut working on a space shuttle like Sandra Bullock’s character Ryan Stone?  Then I recognized the spin.  You know the one.  Weightless without gravity she turns and spins with no direction, no stopping and no grounding.  She is frightened, […]

A different kind of power

by Cindy Maybeck

Twelve years a slave provide a riveting cinematic view of slavery in the 1840s and 1850s.  The film opens with a shot of a violin bow dancing on strings.  An accomplished musician and free man, Solomon Northrup plays the fiddle at a dance in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY.  After Northrup is kidnapped and […]