We tend to separate religion from skepticism, and we associate science with evidence even though of religion and science, only science is op...

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

The medium of film can treat organizational, societal, and global ethical problems either from one standpoint, which is appropriate if the a...

The film, Mary (2024), is pregnant with intimations of the theological implications of her unborn and then newly born son, Jesus. That stor...

I contend that for a religious ritual to be “alive” is for it to be responsive to spiritual truths as they are played out by or among the pe...

By lapsing headlong into partisan politics, especially on controversial matters such as “social issues,” otherwise known as “culture wars,” ...

In what begins as a story about Bess, a mentally-ill (or cognitively challenged) woman who marries Jan, an oilman,  Breaking the Waves  (19...

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic during the Christian Holy Week in 2020 brought up the contentious relationship between church and st...

In  The Essence of Leadership , leadership itself is reformulated in such a way that what emerges—the essence of leadership—is distinct fro...

Citing religious liberty, President Trump signed an executive order on May 4, 2017, the National Day of Prayer, “directing the Internal Re...

Kierkegaard learned from Socrates the value of (being) the single individual, especially in the subjective pursuit of truth. Before Socrate...

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” [1] This biblical verse captures the extraordinary optimism of Norman Vincent...