Resources

We invite you to browse the Consortium’s collection of resources on articles, books and movies, as well as the discussion guides designed to spark discussion among students and others.

Prayer, Healing and Scientific Research

Prayer, Healing and Scientific Research

Brown, Candy Gunther "Testing Prayer: Can Science Prove the Healing Power of Prayer?" Huff Post March 2, ...
The Help

The Help

Directed by: Tate Taylor Race has always been a controversial and deeply divisive topic in the movies. Ever ...
Something to Rejoice About

Something to Rejoice About

Graham, Ruth "New England’s Quiet Christian Revival" The Week (January 8, 2105) Too often the news for ...
Room

Room

Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson The American movie industry is full swing into awards season, and one of the ...
Ivory Tower

Ivory Tower

CNN Films, 2014; Directed by Andrew Rossi; PG-13. Summary: Student loan debt in the United States totals ...
Black Mass

Black Mass

Directed by: Scott Cooper The much anticipated crime picture, Black Mass, has been a mild hit for the ...
World Gone Wrong

World Gone Wrong

The Hunger Games By: Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2008) In her trilogy The Hunger Games Suzanne ...
Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

By: Wesley Hill (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010) Summary: “By the time I started high school, two things ...
Boyhood

Boyhood

IFC Films, 2014; Directed by Richard Linklater; Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, & ...
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

By: Andrew Solomon (New York: Scribner, 2012) Summary: Tolstoy famously began Anna Karenina by saying, ...
The Human as Person in America

The Human as Person in America

Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past By: Wilfred M. McClay (Grand Rapids: William ...
All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses

By: Cormac McCarthy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992) Summary: Cormac McCarthy is one of America’s most ...