Silence: The Best NOT-Feel-Good Movie of the Year
Silence is dead serious about faith.
After a trial-by-fire year as public school substitute teacher and fly-by-night freelancer, Julia will shed the tribulations of the work-world to embark on a MA in art history and museum studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. If you are in town, she’ll gladly take you to a local museum. She enjoys walks, leopard print, and good conversation.
by Julia LaPlaca | Jan 23, 2017 | 0 comments
Silence is dead serious about faith.
by Julia LaPlaca | Dec 23, 2016 | 0 comments
I never identified with Scrooge until this Christmas. It’s so easy to be Scrooge.
by Julia LaPlaca | Nov 23, 2016 | 0 comments
Never enter unknown territory without good instructions from the absent officer. Otherwise you will stumble into a jungle of twenty-four small people’s very specific needs and probably make severe tactical errors.
by Julia LaPlaca | Oct 23, 2016 | 0 comments
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
by Julia LaPlaca | Sep 23, 2016 | 0 comments
All human societies make heroes. Christians enjoy a cloud of witnesses to choose from—some ancient and some who bear the complexities of our own times.
by Julia LaPlaca | Aug 23, 2016 | 0 comments
But, as a single woman with no romantic prospects on the current horizon, I’ve gained the most intimacy with two men I have never met.
by Julia LaPlaca | Jul 30, 2016 | 0 comments
The village of Visnes boasts an unusual claim to fame—its now-defunct mine produced the copper used on the Statue of Liberty.