by Sean Reilly | Aug 30, 2008
Recently released on DVD, David Di Sabatino’s 2005 documentary Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher tells the story of Lonnie Frisbee, a significant figure in the Jesus People Movement, a strain of evangelical Christianity that emerged from the...
by Sean Reilly | May 8, 2008
Join Amnesty International’s campaign against torture. Click here for more details An installation of sculptures responding to the horrors of war, particularly the ongoing war in Iraq, is on display at Union Theological Seminary in New York City until 16 May...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
Millions of dollars have been spent promoting Ben Stein’s creationist propaganda movie ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ to conservative church groups, but that money would have been better spent on fact checkers, say its critics. The National Center for Science...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
The bludgeoning conclusion of Paul Thomas Anderson’s much-lauded, Oscar-nominated film “There Will Be Blood,” which has recently been released on DVD, features a preacher forced to renounce his faith in God and admit charlatanry. Offering a mythic...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 18, 2008
A new painting of St George by highly regarded artist Scott Norwood Witts, which depicts the saint as a man of compassion rather than a crusader, is to be unveiled at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St George, Southwark, to mark the saint’s day next week. The...
