A friend sent me the image below. I loved it and thought it was worth sharing for a good laugh (or cry). I don’t know anything about sacredsandwich.com (see the stamp in the lower right corner). Seems like a good-natured site satirizing Christianity (i.e.,...
Culture & Movies
Checking Your Brain in at the Church Door
This post is laced with sarcasm, but it’s (apparently) backed up by research. Brain Shuts Off in Response to Faith Healer’s Prayer .The first paragraph: WHEN we fall under the spell of a charismatic figure, areas of the brain responsible for scepticism and...
New SBL/NEH Survey on the Bible
I received the following announcement today from SBL (Society of Biblical Literature): The SBL has received an NEH planning grant to develop a website, “The World of the Bible: exploring people, places, and passages.” The site is intended for general...
Merry Christmas – Christ is Born
If you've never seen the beginning of Ben-Hur, the nativity scene, here it is. We watch this every Christmas. Enjoy! Â
New Review of The Fourth Kind
Gary Bates has written a lengthy review of The Fourth Kind. If you haven’t seen the movie yet and care about reading spoilers, you may want to defer reading the review. If you have no time at all for a spiritual explanation for alien abduction, you won’t...
UFOs, Aliens, and Faith: A Review of the Movie “Knowing”
Last Friday I saw the new Nicholas Cage movie, Knowing. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can read some brief plot details here, along with a just-as-brief review. That review seems to suggest Cage recovered his faith, but I’m less generous (and so are many...