Rated “R” for Religion?
How the MPAA might view overly-religious classics.
Has the MPAA begun rating films based on religious content?
It depends on who you believe. The one thing everybody agrees on is that Facing the Giants, a church-made film about a Christian football coach who conquers the “giants” of fear and failure, deserved its […]

“There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, a devout man and one who feared God with all of his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always.”
So begins the record of the conversion of Cornelius, of his friends and […]

For Gay Rights Movement, a Key Setback
When Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage in November 2003, gay rights advocates imagined a chain reaction that would shake marriage laws until same-sex couples across the nation had the legal right to wed.
Nowhere did gay marriage seem like a natural fit more than New […]

I would almost be willing to bet that somewhere along the line you have heard that there are many striking similarities between the story of Noah and a certain Sumerian or Babylonian epic poem. That the story found in the Bible and the Chaldean records of Gilgamesh (sometimes rendered Gilgamec or Gilgames) are perhaps versions […]