In an article published this week in USA Today, Tom Krattenmaker explores the directed effort by religious groups to infiltrate the wide…
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“New” pantheism enters the Oscar race
After claiming two of the big prizes at this year’s Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director…
Hip-hop’s new good book
Hip-hop veteran KRS-One (aka The Teacha) has recently published, with powerHouse Books, The Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument, which…
Dialogues concerning Hume and religion
On the January 4th edition of FOX News Sunday, Brit Hume gave this surprising advice to Tiger Woods in the wake…
The Vatican on The Simpsons
In The Christian Science Monitor, Nick Squires asks why L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper, has made a distinct turn…
Making big bucks on religious films
In The Washington Post, Robert W. Butler notes that more and more Hollywood films are dealing with religion lately, and…
The religion of Avatar
James Cameron's new blockbuster film Avatar has inspired a flurry of commentary about its theological implications.
Anti-Semitism in Lake Wobegon
For thirty-five years, Garrison Keillor has brought listeners into the village of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, the “town that time forgot, that…
Hollywood’s religion of pantheism
In the New York Times, columnist Ross Douthat describes the new movie Avatar as an example of pantheism, "a faith…
Carla Bley’s secular evangelicalism
Earlier this week we heard about the evangelical backgrounds of public intellectuals Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood. Summarizing…