Charles Brammall I showed “The Truman Show” to my year 12 English kids this week, a rare end of term treat. It’s several decades since I saw it, and I was captivated. As were they. It viscerally and existentially moving,… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on the toll of working as a chaplain in the entertainment industry I was working at Sculpture by the Sea when I sadly encountered the first of six people over the ENTER years who took their lives, attempted… Continue Reading
By Charles Brammall I grew up at a Methodist (then Uniting), church, going twice a week from when I was in utero. Mum’s slightly old fashioned, 50s, but delightfully evangelical greeting to all us on Easter Day was always “He… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall rabbits on about Easter. I didn’t grow up going to church on Good Friday- it wasn’t part of my denomination’s expression of piety. But for the last few years I have started going along with my wife, and… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall farewells a mighty voice. He of the mellifluous, honeyed, euphonious voice, actor James Earl Jones starred in such classics as “Hunt for Red October”; he was the voice of Darth Vader in “Star Wars”, and Mufassa in “Lion… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on serving a stressful industry through ENTER, a entertainment ministry Employment in acting is notoriously difficult to get, and completely unpredictable. There is an infinitesimally small number of jobs compared to the number of artists looking. During the… Continue Reading
55 year old US film actor Matthew McConaughey (he of the slow slow and oh-so-easy-to-mimic voice), is a Professor of Practice at the Moody College of Communication. Matthew developed the course’s curriculum, which provides a unique, behind-the-scenes view of each stage… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on a movie that explains the Bible’s two Adams, and how actress Jennifer Garner came back to God Paul the apostle’s letter to the church in Rome, chapter 5 verses 12-19: “Therefore, just as sin entered the world… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on mustard seeds and size not being what matters Mathew’s gospel, chapter 27:14–20, might be one of the most (and worst) misunderstood passages in the Bible. But the C16 Protestant Reformers believed God’s Word was “perspicacious” (clear), and… Continue Reading