Battlescars
The death toll of suicide bombers and the weekly body count/injury report of the war in Iraq has become the soundtrack to the…
HBO: Homogenous Box Office?
The new television season is fast approaching. Week one of the NFL is nearly in the books, so along with the anticipation of…
Are You Ready for Some Football?!
To help celebrate the upcoming NFL season, which starts in just a few hours as the Saints visit the NFL Campion Colts, Bob…
The Ultimate What If…
Films are the great hypothetical (forgive the Shaquille O’Neal analogy). We can easily ask of any character in a film, “What if I…
Better Late Than Never…
I am speaking here of both my review of God’s Warriors and the program itself. I did not finish the series until tonight,…
The Religions Will Be Televised…
This week, CNN is devoting 6 hours of its prime-time programming to a discussion of three major world religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.…
$40 Million: Take Two
WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS POST UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE, $40 MILLION AND TWO MOVIES. It seems like the NFL…
$40 Million and Two Movies
Lately, I have been putting together a syllabus for a course I want to teach on sports and theology, religion, spirituality, ethics…. I…
Life on Pause…
Last fall I eagerly awaited the release of Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep. I was intrigued by the artistic creations shown in…