This sounds like it has the potential to be a terrific movie. Mike Fleming has seen the script: Brad Pitt is circling the title role in Warner Bros‘ Pontius Pilate, the drama about one of history’s most vilified figures. The studio acquired a script by
For only the 8th time in history, no veteran ballplayer got elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Not the one with the home run record for both a single season and for a career. (That would be Barry Bonds.) Not the pitcher with
Southern Gospel Yankee has an interesting account of how the late actor Steve McQueen(a.k.a. “the King of Cool”) became a Christian. (The narrative is the familiar one of a flagrant sinner getting witnessed to, “accepting Christ,” and becoming a changed person. The details, though, are
A tribal community in India that calls itself Bnei Menashe (Hebrew for “children of Mannaseh”) is claiming to be the the remnant of the Hebrew tribe of Mannaseh, one of the “lost tribes” that was taken into captivity by the Assyrians some 3000 years ago.
Here is a solution to our national debt problem that is being floated seriously with various economists and Congressmen buying into it: Mint a trillion dollar coin out of platinum (other metals have statutory limits on how much they can be worth) and put it in the
An Atheist church has opened in London: Yesterday [January 6] saw the first ‘service’ of The Sunday Assembly, London’s first atheist church. Priding itself on its tagline ‘live better, help often, wonder more,’ The Sunday Assembly is the brainchild of Sanderson Jones and musical comedian
My colleague Mark Mitchell feels some cognitive dissonance with the NRA’s response to gun violence in schools: NRA president Wayne LaPierre called for a new initiative to place policemen in every school in America. It’s curious that in attempting to defend one right, the consequence
The $100 per day, per employee, fines have gone into effect for employers that refuse to provide insurance that includes free contraception and abortion-causing drugs. Churches are exempt, and non-profit religious organizations were granted a one-year reprieve, but companies owned by pro-life individuals must either
Yesterday was Epiphany, introducing the season of Epiphany that lasts until Lent. The different Sundays commemorate the “epiphanies” of Christ–that is, the revelations of who Jesus is. First we mark the coming of the Wise Men (the revelation of Christ to the Gentiles); next Sunday
We saw Les Miserables, which has to be the most explicitly Christian film that I have seen come out of contemporary Hollywood. There are more meaningful unembarrassed references–in dialogue, songs, and plot elements–to God, Jesus, salvation, grace, prayer, and Heaven than in most of the
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