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Christian Libertarianism

April 29, 2010

Over at our much beloved Big Hollywood last week, filmmaker Leigh Scott had some thoughtful and entertaining comments on Kick-Ass, a movie he liked and which I haven’t seen.  He says it’s a libertarian film and, as a side note, goes on to discuss what he feels are the differences between libertarian conservatives and Christian [...]

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God-Shaped Hole

March 29, 2010

As they did in the beginning, Passover and Holy Week coincide this year, and yet not one major film being released for the season has anything whatsoever to do with religion. Nowhere is popular entertainment more bizarrely alienated from the lives of ordinary people than in the matter of God. Why should this [...]

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Me At OneNewsNow

February 19, 2010

A brief article up at OneNewsNow.com has me pointing out the obvious:  that Christians are far too often the bad guys in mainstream entertainment.  Frankly, though, I think it goes beyond that.  We are in a strange place where so-called mainstream entertainment doesn’t represent the mainsteam at all and in no area is that more [...]

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Galileo Goes to Jail

January 30, 2010

I’m disconcerted to find that January’s not even over and I’ve already burned through most of my Christmas books.  Haven’t hit upon anything great so far, but this one – Galileo Goes to Jail – was kind of cool.  It’s from the Harvard University Press, a series of essays by scholars ranging from atheist to [...]

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