| August 12th, 2008 Novelist Clyde Edgerton Considers Faith, Fundamentalism, and Free Thinking Best-selling author Clyde Edgerton’s ninth novel, The Bible Salesman (Little, Brown), is the story of Preston Clearwater, a car thief who picks up hitchhiker Henry Dampier, ... |
| August 11th, 2008 Andre Dubus III, the author of The House of Sand and Fog, takes on terrorism After the attacks of September 11th, it seemed like everyone was asking the same question: Why do they (the terrorists) hate us (Americans)? Some offered various answers, ... |
| August 1st, 2008 Why Our Superheroes Keep Getting Edgier Once upon a time, superheroes were simple.Superman was virtually invulnerable; he fought for “Truth, justice, and the American way.” Batman was a handsome billionaire playboy, dishing out punishment ... |
| July 29th, 2008 A nun tries to discover what it is about SATC that women find so appealing? To be honest, I was never a fan of Sex and the City when it was on television so I really had no interest in seeing it when it ... |
| July 24th, 2008 "Why do you think people are so fixated on celebrities?" |
| July 10th, 2008 Thom Yorke and Vincent Van Gogh... undeniably distorted and utterly beautiful Who knows, were he born a century earlier perhaps Radiohead’s Thom Yorke might have picked up a paintbrush instead of a microphone. Yorke and 19th century ... |
| July 1st, 2008 U2-themed liturgies offer a sacred spin on the music of the world's biggest band Until recently, I believed the most heavenly experience I would ever have through music happened at a U2 concert in 1997 when I had an OMG moment as Bono blew a ... |
| June 30th, 2008 WALL-E's a winner Even by Hollywood standards the story idea pitched to movie executives for Pixar’s WALL-E must have sounded hallucinogenic: “So we’ve got this robot, but it's a ... |
| June 23rd, 2008 Earlier this month, a Catholic watchdog group protested a student art exhibition that displayed certain religious symbols in a sexually explicit manner. Have you ever been offended by a piece of art? |
| June 18th, 2008 A renowned New York artist adds a modern twist to ancient Jewish law in creating a painting of Biblical proportions "Each painting lays out in black, white, purple and magenta just how present G-D is in all aspects of life." |
