CCA Film Festival…Take Five!
Alexandra Gomez, Staff Writer/Managing Editor
November 4, 2011
The gates are checked, the footage edited, and the tickets are bought. All that’s left to do is sit back and watch as the screen fades in from black and the opening credits roll for the Fifth Annual CCA Film Festival presented in the Calvary Chapel Theatre on September 9. Hilariously hosted by Calvary... Read more »
The Mirror: Dance Concert Review
Kyle Swenson, Staff Writer
November 3, 2011
The Mirror, this year’s dance concert, was a riveting and moving experience that the whole audience enjoyed. With fabulous performances by Rebecca Quinn (the prodigal daughter) and Bailee Cudmore (the devil), the audience was held in a tight grip of emotions ranging from joy to sadness. The Mirror... Read more »
Tribe of Shrews
Chris LeMaire
January 11, 2011
It’s no secret that many CCA students are gifted with amazing talents, specifically musical ability. We are blessed to have such a talented worship team, but student music doesn’t stop there. Some students have developed such skills combined with creativity to take on the process of songwriting.... Read more »
Charlotte’s Web: A Play Review
Alexandra Gomez
May 3, 2010
“A friend loves at all times.” – Proverbs 17:17 This past April 22-25, Charlotte’s Web by Joseph Robinette, based on E.B. White’s classical children’s story, spun into the light at the Calvary Chapel Theatre with Wilbur (Jonah Carrignan) and his animal—and not so animal—friends. Directed... Read more »
Taking Chance: Movie Review
Darlene Ann Rodick
April 22, 2010
“I felt that, as long as he was still moving, he was somehow still alive. Then they put him down above his grave. He had stopped moving.” –Lt. Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, portrayed by Kevin Bacon in the HBO movie, Taking Chance, based on a true story about Chance Phelps’ final journey home. Nineteen-year-old,... Read more »
CCA Performs Creation: A Concert in Dance…And It was Good!
Alexandra Gomez
March 25, 2010
Play Review “In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.” –Genesis 1:1 Sometimes the talent that comes to the Calvary Chapel Theatre is made of the stuff the heavens are made of—brilliant stars. Such was the case this past March 19-21, when Creation: A Dance in Concert—a blast... Read more »
Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
Brianna Marecki
June 1, 2009
Very much in the forefront in these current times, God’s name seems poised on everyone’s lips— whether agnostic, Jewish, Muslim, or Catholic — and one author has taken notice. In his book Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, Terry Eagleton, a professor of English literature... Read more »
Movie Review
Brianna Marecki
February 12, 2009
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story premiered on TNT last Saturday, February 7, at 8:00pm. The movie stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as Dr. Ben Carson, a man who was able to rise from the slums of Detroit to become one of the world’s top pediatric neurosurgeons, despite the... Read more »