E.U. President Von der Leyen’s 2026 State of the Union address can be characterized as a bricolage of concerns “all over the map,” with prop...

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, one trend in the American retail sector involved the creation of a status that had not...

Exactly 30 years after The Omen (1976), The Omen (2006) was released. An older boy plays Damien in the remake, which means that the actor ...

I contend that religion and science are two distinct and unique domains, and thus qualitatively different. It follows that they have their o...

Writing on theology and ethics and their application to politics and economics in An Interpretation of Christian Ethics , Reinhold Niebuhr r...

It is easy to point to instances in which elected government-officials stage political theater for effect, for in the domain of politics, pe...

Idealism may exist especially in young adults because they have not experienced decade upon decade of the intractability of a deeply flawed ...

The Nazi program of inflicting euthanasia on the severely mentally ill in the twentieth century can be distinguished from cases in which suf...

In a retelling of the proverbial Faustian deal with the devil,  The Mephisto Waltz   (1971) plays out with the deal paying off, as Duncan El...

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

A contemporary scholar of Chinese philosophy wrote, “myths often contain an element of historical truth, and what passes for historical trut...

Imagine a crowded, standing-room-only subway car during rush hour in Boston, Massachusetts. Even though many riders are standing, a seated p...

After The Omen (1976), which was released just two years after the sardonic U.S. President, Richard Nixon, had resigned in utter disgrace f...

Words matter; they may not break bones, but they can wreak havoc if they are used carelessly or ideologically. Political labels can stick, a...

In the 11 th century, Christians were not welcome in Persia, so in the film, The Physician (2013), Rob Cole, a Christian, pretends to be J...

In The Master (2012), Lancaster Dodd tells Freddie Quell, the man whom Lancaster wants to cure of alcoholism and mental illness, “I am a wr...

The film, My Name is Bernadette (2011), focuses, almost as an obsession, on the question of whether the girl “actually” saw the Virgin Mary...

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...

The matter of group-identity is salient in the film, The Aryan Couple (2004), which actually centers around two couples: Joseph and Rachel ...

Besides using social pressure and anger to purge words that a student or faculty member deems unacceptable, the word police have found that ...