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...

The political separation of “Church and State” in U.S. constitutional law, a doctrine that is of jurisprudence (judicial decision) rather th...

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...

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

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

Chaitanya Charan spoke at Harvard’s Bhukti Yoga Conference in 2025 about action and transcendence in the Bhagavad-gita . Arjuna faces advers...

Compared with Shankara’s non-dualist Advaita Vedanta theology, the Gita can be interpreted as a compromise between Shankara’s view and Vedi...

The Hindu myth, the Bhagavadgita , is typically regarded as placing the god Krishna above not only the other Hindu gods—here rendered merely...

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

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

In June, 2024 at the international political meeting of the G7, a group of seven industrial nations, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, ...

Jesus’ identity as the Son of God is salient in the four canonical gospels, as well as in Paul’s letters. Hence, christology has been an ...

The Bahá’i religion is based on the monotheistic teachings of Bahá’u’lláh, the nineteenth-century prophet whom Bahá’i’s maintain is the pro...

The Picture of Dorian Gray , a Gothic and philosophical novel written by Oscar Wilde, was first published in 1890. The first motion picture...

Delegates meeting at a special session of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church voted on February 26, 2019 to retain the de...

The film narrative centers on Satan impregnating Rosemary, a married woman in New York City. According to Roman Polanski, the film’s direct...