http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/8 Reviews and criticisms of classic and contemporary literature, movies and art, including the occasional review of the slightly offbeat, fill this section. Wed, 22 May 13 08:49:32 +0300 en http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/6249 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:50:02 +0300 Jack Wellman Charles Swindoll, the voice behind the ministry, Insight for Living, is also an accomplished author. I am enrolled for my M.A. in seminary and am pastoring a church that has a desire to grow and evangelize the town of Mulvane, Kansas. The arrival of the http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/6206 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:32:36 +0300 Asa Butcher Bernardo Bertolucci\'s epic multi-Oscar winning film tells the true story of Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the last Emperor of China, who ascended the throne in 1908, a few months before his third birthday. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/6197 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:48:45 +0300 Jack Wellman In Professor Edgar Andrews\' book, Who Made God, the goal is not to refute atheistic assertions, but to develop a theory of everything (p. 10). This envelops both the material and non-material aspects of the universe. Who Made God? is repeatedly asked b http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/6121 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:22:40 +0300 Jack Wellman If Christians are to be always ready to give an answer for the reason of the hope that is within us (I Pet. 3:15) and not have any fear or be troubled about reasons for unbelievers questions about the existence of God, the Creator (v 14) , then the DVD, T http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/6014 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:30:52 +0300 Frank de Leeuw Van Weenen In a music segment where most bands sound like all the others, Avenue 52 is fitting right in. Good quality recording, decent enough songs but it is not bringing anything new to the listeners. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5988 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:30:40 +0300 Dr. Habib Siddiqui No American president has probably touched the lives of so many outside in a positive way than Jimmy Carter - the 39th president. For the past three decades, since leaving the White House, he has been a resolute voice for human rights and democracy http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5976 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:29:38 +0300 Asa Butcher As I sit writing this, the clock on the kitchen wall reads 1:43am; obviously, I cannot sleep. For the past half-hour my mind has been stuck on a film and the only remedy for this rare bout of insomnia is to write down these raging thoughts and exorcise th http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5911 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:21:17 +0300 Abigail George It is very hard to fall in love with something and give yourself over to it completely. Why do I write? I pay attention to what came before and then I fast forward to a time when I sense people will come after me - when I am no longer here http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5819 Thu, 20 May 2010 07:17:29 +0300 Dr. Habib Siddiqui Book Review: Inside the revolution: how the followers of Jihad, Jefferson http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5714 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:08:26 +0300 Jack Wellman Are humans just an accident by chance. Did life emerge from a pre-biotic soup? Or was there purpose and design behind human life? Richard Dawkins actually admits in his book, Climbing Mount Improbable that \"The original replicator probably was not DNA. W