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Billy Graham was a man who towered over twentieth-century Christianity and, if I may say so, I had the wonderful privilege of meeting. Billy, as he liked to be called,...

This film’s portrayal of 1990s American student life has that really important factor of sticking in your mind once you have watched it. Set at Harvard University, the story centres...

Christmas raises all sorts of issues to do with our lives, our families and our faith. Many of these issues are touched on by films. The issue of community is...

Sixty years ago Dr Seuss wrote a little children’s book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, as a protest on the commercialism that he thought was destroying Christmas. It’s become astonishingly famous...

Home Alone is about how 8-year-old Kevin (brilliantly played by Macaulay Culkin) gets left behind when his rather dysfunctional family leaves for a Christmas vacation in France. And if being left...

The plot of Christmas Vacation is that Clark Griswold (played by Chevy Chase) decides that this year his family is going to have ‘the most fun-filled old-fashioned family Christmas ever’. He becomes...

Jarena Lee overcame many struggles and much opposition to become the first black woman preacher in the United States. Jarena was born into a free black family in New Jersey...

My favourite Miracle on 34th Street is the 1994 version starring Sir Richard Attenborough. This feel-good classic tells the heart-warming story of a young girl’s desire for a fully functional family, complete...

A common experience at this time of year is to pick up a Christmas card from an old friend and reflect on the past. Should I have left that job?...

It’s a Wonderful Life follows the life of George Bailey, born and raised in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. But he is someone with ambition and imagination who...

Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved black woman who became one of the first published writers in North America, was a Christian who fought the horror of slavery. Phillis was born in...

Our modern Christmas celebration owes an enormous amount to Charles Dickens’ popularisation of a food-filled, feel-good, family-focused festival. A Christmas Carol has been filmed many times but my favourite is the...