by Amanda Read Sheik | Dec 7, 2013 | Politics, The Washington Times Communities
Dr. Benjamin Carson brings a surgeon’s hand and eye to the health care debate…read my report in The Washington Times Communities.
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 15, 2013 | Filmmaking, Satire, World Views
Are you ready for this? Investigative blogger Virtus Coolidge thinks little of the flash drive given to him by new media mogul Andrew Romans until Romans’ sudden death. Virtus discovers he has inherited a mysterious list that intertwines the fate of his friends and...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jul 24, 2013 | Journal, Style, World Views
Just over a month ago (already?!) I attended this year’s edition of Acton University. The evening before flying out of Birmingham, Grandmomma and I attended a Fixed Point Foundation event at the Red Cat on “Making Sense of Old Testament Violence,”...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 22, 2013 | Comedy, Dramatizing History, Filmmaking, Journal, Politics
Eight years ago, my sister Rachel and I made a cassette tape about George Washington for fun (yes, this is what teenage Read girls did for fun…in the era when I made a portrait of George Washington the desktop background on our computer). We organized a...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 12, 2013 | Literary Projects, Luke Historians, Politics, World Views
Anyone who has followed my writings for awhile knows that I have a thing for men of science. I adored Sir Isaac Newton at an early age, I wrote a screenplay about Chief Chemist Harvey Wiley as a teenage girl (I think it needs a second revision), I’ve dissected...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jan 15, 2013 | Dramatizing History, Filmmaking, Politics, World Views
Our languishing culture is made up of individuals, not a collective mass audience. Most of them are blasé, complacent individuals. To simply confront them with holier-than-thou accusations or rah-rah chants is fruitless. Moral outrage doesn’t make sense to them...
