St. Francis of Assisi died 800 years before October 4, 2026, assuming that the days dropped in adopting the Gregorian calendar after his dea...

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

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

The Christian “belief in the ‘rapture’ of believers at the time of Jesus’ return to Earth is rooted in a particular form of biblical interpr...

In a world in which higher education is increasingly thought as preparation for a profession, being multidisciplinary in college and especia...

In Christianity, Paul wrote that if the resurrection of Christ Jesus didn’t really take place, then faith is for naught, but he also wrote t...

On October 24, 2024, Pope Francis released his encyclical, Dilexit Nos (“He Loved Us), on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the letter, he reco...

I contend that the more courses that are heavily ideological and biased in advocating a particular ideology that a university has, the highe...

Relics are nothing new to religion, whose legitimacy used to be synonymous with being ancient, which is one reason why the ancient Romans di...

The Devil’s Arithmetic   (1999) can be classified superficially as a coming-of-age film, for Hanna, the protagonist, starts out being immatu...

The film, Fatima (2020), tells the story of the three Roman Catholic children in Fatima, Portugal, who in 2017 claimed to see and hear the V...

I think perhaps the title of the film,  Silence  (2016) ought to have been “The last Priest” because the main character, Rodrigues, is the ...

When I was a post-doctoral student, I sat in on a course on German films during World War II. The instructor was an 80 year-old German ...

The Financial Times reported in 2013 that there was “no great clamour in China for western democracy .”[1] The assumption in the West t...

In German-occupied Poland during World War I, Oskar Schindler spent millions to save 600 Jews from the death camps. In the 1993 film, Schin...

To be profitable, is it advisable that  films with a distinctively religious theme and narrative water down their theological dimension so ...

My essay that suggests that the Occupy Wall Street protests should have focused on the large corporation itself (i.e., that the large corp...

The human mind naturally tends to make (and remake) religion into familiar terms, while resisting the wholly other as such. As David Hume e...

In “the story of increasing complexity and then decreasing complexity,” we find complexity in “privileged localities” where “intense loca...

In the film, Philomena (2013), the audience is confronted with the spectacle of unjustifiable cruelty committed under religious auspices. ...