Decades before dying while doing battle with the demon possessing Regan NacNeil in  The Exorcist  (1973), Rev. Lankester Merrin successfully...

In the film,  Devil’s Advocate   (1997), human free-will plays a very important role. It has implications not only for whether humans tend t...

In the Zhuangzi , how can Zhuangzi possibly know that the fish are happy? To know what it is like to be a bat, a person must be a bat. This ...

In the film,  The Scarlet and the Black   (1983), Gregory Peck and Christopher Plummer face off as Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty and Col. Herber...

Organized or institutional religion as the Roman Catholic Church is in the background in the 2019 European film, Hope Gap . Even with such n...

Carl Schultz’s film,  The Seventh Sign   (1988), centers on the theological motif of the Second Coming, the end of the world when God’s divi...

Marie Martin (1873-1897), known to the world as the Carmelite nun, Thérèse of Lisieux as well as Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Fac...

In his religiosity, Ramakrishna (1836-1885), a Hindu mystic and priest at a temple of the goddess Kali, the goddess of death, drew on the Bh...

I contend that compassion is an automatic byproduct of having shut out the outside world for a time to experience transcendence in its relig...

Even as much as divine entities reveal themselves to particular human beings, our finiteness cannot completely perceive or know such an enti...

In The Natural History of Religion , David Hume claims that the human mind has difficulty holding on to the pure (i.e., unencumbered) idea o...

A basic tenet of the Advaita (non-dualist) Hindu philosophy of Shankara holds, “If saguna points to brahman’s immanence, nirguna points to ...

I contend that the core of religion is its quality of transcendence beyond the limits of human thought, perception, and emotion. This is not...

In 1982, when Bladerunner was released, 2019 could only have been a blink of an eye in people’s thoughts. Even the year 2001, the year in wh...

Just in terms of how the business and political elites reacted to the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the want of a distinctly rel...

The film  L’Argent  (1983) is about how far people will go to get money ( l’argent en francais ). One major problem with greed is that peop...

When religion meets human nature, does the gravitational pull of me, me, me tend to encompass the journey downward in an all too comfortabl...

A closeted gay student at an evangelical seminary is a contrast with a rather obvious clashing point, with the predicted ending being that ...

The claim that God is real, or even that God's existence is reality, is problematic chiefly because it incurs the category mistake of t...

In 2016, Robert McIntyre, a graduate of MIT, became the first person to freeze and then revive a mammalian brain—that of a white rabbit. “...