Postcards from Palookaville

Check this out: http://arts.independent.co.uk/film/news/article3201577.ece After 500 years, the strategy remains the same: boycott a cultural product to make it the most popular thing since sliced bread. And now we have another example: with the release of Pullman's Golden Compass , the Catholic...

Check this out: http://arts.independent.co.uk/film/news/article3201577.ece After 500 years, the strategy remains the same: boycott a cultural product to make it the most popular thing since sliced bread. And now we have another example: with the release of Pullman's Golden Compass , the Catholic...

When I was a child, I read and read the Arabian Nights, and loved the storiesabout Scheherezade, Ali Baba, Al-Ahdin, the Djinn in the bottle and others equally fantastic more than anything else which I read; yet, strange to tell, I never once embraced Islam orwas even tempted so to do. That's what...

When I was a child, I read and read the Arabian Nights, and loved the storiesabout Scheherezade, Ali Baba, Al-Ahdin, the Djinn in the bottle and others equally fantastic more than anything else which I read; yet, strange to tell, I never once embraced Islam orwas even tempted so to do. That's what...

Justin T just brought this book to my attention. Haven't read it but may be of interest: http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=3379 Personally, I think I may well boycott the movie after all: apparently it's set in Oxford University which is a simply frightful place and not somewhere to...

Justin T just brought this book to my attention. Haven't read it but may be of interest: http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=3379 Personally, I think I may well boycott the movie after all: apparently it's set in Oxford University which is a simply frightful place and not somewhere to...

If intention is the key to Pullman's error, then I guess we should also discourage Christians from reading Milton's polemically anti-Trinitarian, anti-orthodox Paradise Lost .And Pascal's anti-Protestant Pensees . And Gibbon's anti-Christian Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . And Swift's anti-...

If intention is the key to Pullman's error, then I guess we should also discourage Christians from reading Milton's polemically anti-Trinitarian, anti-orthodox Paradise Lost .And Pascal's anti-Protestant Pensees . And Gibbon's anti-Christian Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . And Swift's anti-...

Ok, it's against my religion, but I'm going to have to agree with Rick here. I remember when I was on faculty at the University of Aberdeen hearing a brilliant piece of NT theology/exegesis from a respected colleague. But when it came to questions such as `Did the resurrection actually happen?', he...

Ok, it's against my religion, but I'm going to have to agree with Rick here. I remember when I was on faculty at the University of Aberdeen hearing a brilliant piece of NT theology/exegesis from a respected colleague. But when it came to questions such as `Did the resurrection actually happen?', he...