As a liberal Christian, I am often horrified by what people call themselves Christians often do in the name of Christ. One has to only look at the Westboro Baptist Church for […]
DVD Review: The God Who Wasn’t There – Challenging Christianity Tropes
Movie Review: Kingdom of Heaven – Ridley Scott Knew What He Was Doing
Written by William MonahanDirected by Ridley Scott I don’t remember it, but apparently, there was some pretty big controversy over Director Ridley Scott’s epic about the Crusades, Kingdom of Heaven. With the […]
Book Review – Worth Fighting For: Finding Courage & Compassion When Cruelty is Trending by John Pavlovitz – Both God and John Pavlovitz Gets Us
Note: Thank you to NetGalley, Westminster John Knox Press, and John Pavlovitz for the advanced reader copy of the book. This review will also be posted on NetGalley. What follows is my unbiased […]
Movie Review: Religulous – Where Bill Maher Empowers the Anti-Intelligence Conservatives
I am presenting this as I wrote it in 2010. It’s even more true now, and I think a lot less of Maher now than I did when I wrote this. Let […]
Book Review -Holy Hot Mess: Finding God in the Details of This Weird and Wonderful Life by Mary Katherine Backstrom
I follow Mary Katherine Backstrom on social media. At a time when so much of the Christian faith is shown in the media as hatred, it’s refreshing to find a voice of […]
Movie Review: The Second Coming (2003) – Is Humanity Worthy of God’s Gift?
Written by Russell T. DaviesDirected by Adrian Shergold What if humanity blew it? Seriously. What if we have so perverted the wonderful gift God gave us of his son, and Jesus’ sacrifice […]
Book Review: Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult – Who Would God Hang With?
I was introduced to Jodi Picoult after reading Nineteen Minutes, which was assigned as summer reading to the high school one summer. The good and bad side to reading so many books […]
What Ruined Religion For You?
In my Twitter feed this morning, one of the first things I read was this question from someone I follow. (Twitter’s current state of insanity is another post.) It made me pause […]
DVD Review: 2000 Years of Christianity Episode XIII – Opportunities and Perils
This is the twelfth part of a 13-part German documentary mini-series covering the history of Christianity from its beginnings to the modern-day. Although the series is a German production, the narration is […]
DVD Review: 2000 Years of Christianity Episode XII – Gates of Hell
This is the twelfth part of a 13-part German documentary mini-series covering the history of Christianity from its beginnings to the modern-day. Although the series is a German production, the narration is […]
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