Although no overtly theological or religious material is in the film  Awake (2007) because greed itself is the real antagonist, idolatry (s...

As if the macabre specter of a ghost, albeit in a white sheet with two black eye-holes, were not enough for a spooky film, David Lowery ende...

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

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

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

In line with the films, The Sixth Sense (1999) and The Others (2001), Passengers (2008) centers on the (hypothetical) question of whether...

In chapter 11 of the Bhagavad-Gita , Krishna reveals his real form to Arjuna. The chapter seems like a departure from the surrounding chapte...

In reading the Bhagavad-Gita from chapter four on, it may be tempting to collapse all of Hinduism into a monotheism in which Lord Krishna i...

Israeli state officials met on August 7, 2025 to debate Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan to expand the presence of the IDF, Israel’s military...

At Harvard’s Bhukti Yoga Conference in 2025, Ed Anobah spoke on  dharma  (right-acting) leadership as a means of making progress in solving ...

At Harvard’s Bhukti Yoga Conference in 2025, Anuttama spoke on metaphysics as a spiritual reality. He argued that the nature of that reality...

Hinduism is a polytheist religion whereas Christianity is monotheist. Many gods versus one seems like a clear distinction, and I submit 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...

Reincarnation is a difficult gig for Buddhists. Being reborn for yet another life is not a good thing; bad karma (i.e., residue from bad ch...