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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – a review for preachers

Make all the allowances you need for the impossible task of turning an epic poem into a magnificent film.  Along the way Nolan has subtly adjusted the moral frame of the movie, because true Homeric morality is ugly to a Christianised world  

When English is the second language, who comes first?

At our recent new Members class, one of the issues that struck me with great force was how many of those present did not have English as their first language, although it was the language we all had in common.  Apparently this is a global phenomenon: while English is not the most widely spoken language

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