I found this after being “inspired” by a bumper sticker saying, “Keep your hands off my Bible, Guns, and Values.” This does raise a significant theological question: Where does Jesus keeps his holster?

An earlier post of mine, “Dear Lord…”, has plead guilty to the act of self-plagiarism (which is, admittedly, rarely as enjoyable as self-pleasuring). It was a previously published article of mine in which the only real altering that occurred was my changing of the title (with the help of The Temptations–ah yeah). Think of it […]

Dear God, Could you please stop fixing sporting events? Your unpredictability is killing me at the betting table. I can never figure out who you’re helping. One moment you’re hooking up Steve Smith with the Panthers (well, you used to hook him up–he must have been a naughty boy this past year), and the next […]

It is a rare and special treat to find a band that makes music, especially music that one might classify as religious music, which is wholly devoted to the pursuit of beauty. The Opiate Mass, a Seattle-based collaboration of musicians, songwriters, visual artists, audio engineers, and authors, provides just such a treat. In this interview, […]

Aronofsky’s adrenalin-junkie tendencies get the better of him in a movie that Mila Kunis steals from Natalie Portman.

Gianni Vattimo and René Girard, Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue, Pierpaolo Antonello (ed.), William McCuaig (tr.), Columbia University Press, 2010, 124 pp, $18.50 (hbk), ISBN 9780231148283. Reviewed by Kevin Hart, The University of Virginia/The Australian Catholic University Gianni Vattimo is best known today, at least in the English-speaking world, as one of a […]