Be Wary of Sensationalized “Jesus Tomb” News
Lent is not only the season of giving up bad habits or taking on new spiritual practices for 40 days. Lent is also the season of media outlets hawking sensationalized stories about the historical Jesus...
View ArticleWhat Troubles Your Thoughts? Wendell Berry, Prometheus, & The Tower of Babel
1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come,...
View ArticleAronofsky’s Noah: from “Hope in Heaven” to “Hope in Grandchildren”
You know the city Shurrupak, it stands on the banks of Euphrates? that city grew old and the gods that were in it were old…. In those days the world teemed, the people multiplied, the world bellowed...
View Article“Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses”
Incense fills the nostrils of a Krishna devotee in a temple in Vrindavan, India, letting him know he is in a sacred place; Muslim worshipers heed the muezzin’s amplified call to prayer from the minaret...
View ArticleDid the Exodus Happen? And What It Means Today
Ridley Scott, is the director of such classic films as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator. So when I heard that Scott, who is a self-described atheist, had been given a $140...
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