Christopher Fenoglio

My books, my columns, my music.

  • About Me
  • Author
    • The Secret of the Santa Box
      • Summary
      • Book Trailer
      • Reader Reviews
      • Media Reviews
      • Appearances
      • Author & Illustrator
  • Columnist
    • Reel Life Journeys
    • Profiles of Faith
    • Working 4 the Cubs
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  • Singer
    • National Anthems
      • Singing 4 the Cubs
      • Vanderbilt Commodores
    • Sacred Music
    • Contemporary Music
    • Notre Dame Glee Club
  • About Me
  • Author
    • The Secret of the Santa Box
      • Summary
      • Book Trailer
      • Reader Reviews
      • Media Reviews
      • Appearances
      • Author & Illustrator
  • Columnist
    • Reel Life Journeys
    • Profiles of Faith
    • Working 4 the Cubs
  • Publisher
  • Singer
    • National Anthems
      • Singing 4 the Cubs
      • Vanderbilt Commodores
    • Sacred Music
    • Contemporary Music
    • Notre Dame Glee Club
  • Bilbo Baggins goes on an adventure
    Featured Posts 1,  Reel Life Journeys

    Bilbo Baggins becomes less comfortable, more helpful

    December 23, 2012

    “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…” Professor J.R.R. Tolkien scribbled these words unexpectedly on a blank page in a term paper he was grading during the early 1930s. He had no idea where the words came from or where they would lead, but he was determined to find out. He spent the next few years drawing…

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  • Reel Life Journeys

    Lessons learned during six years of Reel Life Journeys

    September 30, 2011

    Dear Readers, After writing more than 70 columns about films, faith and family, I’ve decided to take a break. I would like to tell you that I am flying to New Zealand for a small part in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit.” But the simple truth is that I have a number of writing projects I would like to complete in…

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  • Reel Life Journeys

    Courage to change deplorable situations can be found within

    September 1, 2011

    For this reel life journey, let’s travel back in time to 1963. In Washington, D.C., President John Kennedy, our nation’s 35th president, walks downstairs from his White House residence and starts his workday in the Oval Office. In Jackson, Mississippi, as portrayed in the movie The Help, black women in neatly ironed blue uniforms ride a city bus down the…

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  • Reel Life Journeys

    Potter’s love for his friends triumphs over all

    August 7, 2011

    It’s been a long journey to normalcy for Harry Potter. Some people work their whole lives to achieve fame and fortune. Harry had it thrust upon him before he was out of his playpen, but it never mattered much to him. All he really wanted was to live in a family of love. As we are reminded in “Harry Potter…

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  • Reel Life Journeys

    ‘I am Frodo’ and other insights in Middle-earth

    July 6, 2011

    My favorite films of all time – the extended editions of the three Lord of the Rings films – were recently shown in the theaters to announce their release in the Blu-ray format. Watching the films on the big screen with dear friends gave me another opportunity to visit Middle-earth and to explore the lives and motivations of the main…

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  • Reel Life Journeys

    Don’t fear the end of times, live today with compassion

    June 14, 2011

    “The end is near” is a phrase that’s been around for a long, long time. We heard it most recently from Harold Camping, the 89-year-old civil engineer, self-taught bible sage and owner of the Family Radio Network. Camping’s numerological calculations and extensive study of Scripture led him to predict that the Day of Judgment (also known as the Rapture) was…

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  • Reel Life Journeys

    Our response to adversity defines our lives, our faith

    May 14, 2011

    Last month I wrote of our Lenten journey and how we should follow the example of Jesus (and the Abbate family) to care for others, even in the darkest times of our lives. Now in the glorious light of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday, I want to tell you about the Hamilton family, specifically their daughter Bethany, whose life is…

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  • Reel Life Journeys

    Jesus calls us to care for others, even during the darkest times

    April 20, 2011

    Just as the Abbate family sat down to dinner one evening, the telephone rang. It was the phone call that all parents fear: their son had been in an automobile accident. The events that followed became the factual basis for a new film in theaters now: The 5th Quarter. The Abbates hurriedly drove to the area of town where a…

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  • Featured Readings for Lent,  Reel Life Journeys

    During Lent we learn the true meaning of true grit

    March 24, 2011

    Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one as well. – Matthew 5:38-39 Rooster Cogburn never turned the other cheek.…

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  • Featured Readings for Lent,  Reel Life Journeys

    This dark Lenten journey will soon end in the Light

    March 1, 2011

    I am alone. I walk along a shadowed path, a dark Lenten journey into self-consideration. Night has fallen early; I can barely see the way ahead. I stumble and fall, many times, for I am weak and unsure of my way. Where should I turn? The black forest closes around me, tall trees of sins surround me: mighty redwoods of…

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