Get Religion and Beliefnet report that Dimension Films has hired a PR firm known for marketing to conservative Christians to help push The Road. The adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's relentlessly bleak postapocalyptic narrative might seem a tough product to sell...
First the announcement: I’m taking a blogging break as of now! I’ll probably take a week or so off for the holiday. I’ve been blogging for quite a while now and have learned how important it is to take breaks. However, if something strikes my fancy I might resume blogging sooner, or just do one [...]
H.G. WELLS, Pakistani nuclear physicist A.Q. Khan (father of the Islamic nuke), and Tim LaHaye are all connected through what researchers Paul and Phillip Collins call "the cult of the superweapon". Basically, Wells idea was that a weapon so devastating that it threatened all life on Earth would be just what was needed to overcome the primitive concept of nationhood and local autonomy, and...
www.huffingtonpost.com | November 5, 2009 ... The new documentary from Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson, Poliwood examines the intersection of politics and the entertainment industry. It follows several members of the "Creative Coalition" as they travel to both the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 2008. They waltzed in through the front door, with cameras and...
I learned last week (via Arts & Letters Daily) that the Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye is selling as well as ever despite having come to a conclusion a couple of years ago with a sixteenth installment. Frank Schaeffer notes the unintended irony of the title Left Behind : "The evangelical/fundamentalists, from their crudest egocentric celebrities to...
Every week we'll post about what books we have received that week (via your mailbox/library/store bought)! Created by The Story Siren ! For Review (4) Life After 187 by Wade J. Halverson The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate (blog tour) What Your Mother Never Told You: A Survival Guide for Teenage Girls by Richard M. Dudum 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster Library (5) The Red Badge of Courage by...
Americans take it on faith that movie stars are politically liberal. Whether the celebrity lives in L.A. or New York, from Streisand to Sarandon, we...
One church in Canton, N.C., “celebrated” Halloween in a special way this past weekend. You might have seen the reports about it in the AP or in hundreds of blogs. Amazing Grace Baptist Church planned a book burning on Oct. 31. According to their website, the event was a success. Non-church members, including the media, [...]
Lately we have been discussing the very important issue of irony, among other things. There’s been no small amount of tension. I regret tension because it inhibits learning. Well, we all need a break every now and again, something to smile about, something to join hands around, something to protest as it were. So, in the [...]
I have just been visiting the website of Amazing Grace Baptist Church . They are having a great Halloween party burning Satanic Bibles, books, and music. Here is the list: We are burning Satan's bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, Good News for Modern Man, The Evidence Bible, The Message Bible, The Green Bible, ect. These are perversions of God's Word the King James Bible....
Today’s (Sunday, 25 th October) BBC News Online carries a story about Israeli police arresting stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators outside the Al-Alqsa Mosque on Temple Mount in Jerusalem . So, what else is new, you might ask. What is new, and disturbing, is that the demonstration was provoked by rumours that have been circulating in the Arab communities throughout the Middle East that Jewish...
In the midst of the storm over Rome's invitation to disaffected Anglicans, a little light relief is required. If this story, doing the rounds in blogville, is a spoof, then light relief it is. The worry is that it could actually be for real, in which case it's not light relief but lighting fires. AmazingGraceBaptistChurchKJV.com – the website of Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, NC, apparently...
On a theme related to my last post, Alan Bevere has a video report of a Bible-burning church in North Carolina. A little googling provided me with the church’s own invitation to this hallowe’en festival of fire Halloween Book Burning Burning Perversions of God’s Word October 31, 2009 7:00 PM - Till Great Preaching and Singing Come to our Halloween book [...]