Holy Blood, Holy Vodka Bottle
By Heidi Martinuzzi
Ever since Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code turned the New Testament into a source of endless tabloid headlines, we're used to this sort of thing, so you probably won't be surprised when I give you the what-ifs from the Bruce Burgess documentary Bloodline, opening Friday: READ MORE...
05.08.2008 | Comments(41)
How to Make Your Passover Meal Last Three Hours Longer
By Jennifer Morrow
Why is this night different from all other nights?
On all other nights we eat either leavened bread or matzah; on this night, why only matzah?
On all other nights we eat all kinds of herbs; on this night, why only bitter herbs? READ MORE...
Stein Nukes Dawkins, Then Freaks Out
By Heidi Martinuzzi
Richard Dawkins is going to be very sorry today. There's a moment in Ben Stein's new movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed that the revered biologist is not going to like at all. READ MORE...
04.18.2008 | Comments(124)Jesus and Larry and Me
By Bob Gersztyn
Larry Norman, the godfather of Jesus Rock, always said he was just putting Jesus back into the music that Elvis Presley had taken out of the black churches. "Why should the devil have all the good music?" Larry would shout while pounding his piano, Jerry-Lee-Lewis style, searing guitars screaming behind him. READ MORE...
02.29.2008 | Comments(19)Loud Whispers from the Ends of the Earth
By John Bloom
Iona is a chilly, barren, salty, wind-whipped little island off the coast of western Scotland that seems almost entirely inhabited by the ghosts of madmen READ MORE...
02.26.2008 | Comments(12)
Praying at Burger King
By Dave Werther
Praying at Burger King is Richard Mouw's eagerly anticipated follow-up to Calvinism at the Las Vegas Airport (a.k.a Blackjack and the Belgic Confession). I'm going to set aside the question of corporate sponsorship (the recent gift of 10,000 Whoppers to Fuller Theological Seminary) to focus on the book itself, because even the gospel needs brand marketing, amen? READ MORE...
02.21.2008 | Comments(4)
Skippy at the Kimbell: Where's the Cross?
By Skippy R
The first Christian "art" must have been the fish symbol that believers could trace in the sand to covertly identify themselves and then immediately erase. READ MORE...
02.21.2008 | Comments(15)Don't Mess With Christmas
What could be better for the Christmas spirit than one of those books that tells us Jesus may or may not have been born in Bethlehem, Mary may or may not have been a virgin, the wise men from Babylon following a star is a real stretch, the dates are all wrong READ MORE...
12.20.2007 | Comments(15)
Preaching Till It Hurts
Hard As Nails
Reviewed by Becky Garrison
Entering the auditorium of St. Gabriel Catholic School in the same neighborhood of Queens that spawned Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays and Malcolm X, I couldn’t keep my eyes off this urban punk doing pushups and rapping at the top of his lungs. READ MORE...
12.18.2007 | Comments(18)
Master of the Temple Describes a Fragile Paul
The Gospel According to Paul: The Creative Genius Who Brought Jesus to the World by Robin Griffith-Jones. HarperSanFrancisco, 2004, $16.95.
Reviewed by John Bloom
Robin Griffith-Jones, an Anglican cleric known for his wit and good humor, is Master of the Temple Church in London. READ MORE...
12.13.2007 | Comments(0)