Author Archives: LaShawnda Jones

Film Review: SON OF GOD

Honestly, I was hooked from the first few seconds…. Soon, however, I was thrown by the choppy feel of the scene tranisitons and the increasing sense that the movie was more of a reading of select passages than a reactment of a very important period of the Christian lifestory. {Follow the link to read the full post.}

A conversation and a song

We were still in the middle of a slow-moving line in a restaurant in Union Square. He began singing a beautiful song in his beautiful voice. Halfway through I began lip-syncing along with him. My heart was lifted and I believe he lifted the hearts of several people in the line also.

The sexing of media and the dumbing of the public

At a certain point, higher education becomes another process for dumbing down, in that students are taught to “think” in a certain way that makes them appropiately “academic”. As long as you are attaining knowledge, it’s good. However, there is a peak to everything. After the peak, the more you acquire does you less and less good. So it is with education.