Pagans have demanded an apology for a Time magazine article that, according to a petition, compared witches to terrorists. The “inflammatory” part of author Jennifer Latson’s piece, which analyzes our…
The brouhaha over Bill Maher’s recent remarks about Islam and Muslims is growing weirder by the day. During an episode of his HBO show “Real Time,” the controversial host took aim at President Obama’s…
Honestly, after a good bit of Googling I’m surprised to find just a single mention of ISIS connected to the Walking Dead Season 5 premiere. In a ghastly early scene, Glenn, Darrell, Rick and Bob (in…
Five months before the big-budget Left Behind reboot hit theaters, evangelical movie producer Paul Lalonde was fighting with fans. Lalonde was still editing the film. The score was still being written…
Catholic and Hindu leaders—two religions that normally appreciate religious statues and images—have decried “Barbie: The Plastic Religion,” a new exhibit by Argentinian artists Pool Paolini and…
The pastors who promote MMA describe it as a sport through which to recapture man’s “God given attributes” of “aggressiveness” and “competitiveness.” I couldn’t help but think of Mark Driscoll.
This year, 2014, is the 40 th anniversary of the game Dungeons & Dragons, the pen-and-paper role-playing game that not only launched an industry but provoked a wide-ranging cultural shift. In…
It struck me, when reading Brook Wilensky-Lanford’s review of Magic in the Moonlight—in which she notes that Woody Allen’s film is “based on a story that’s almost too good to be true”—that attention…
