Tag: Popular culture

Berenstain Bears get religion, in parallel universe

The Berenstain Bears, once known for promoting family values sans religion, have broken their self imposed moratorium on declaring whether they are people of faith or no faith. Actually, it’s more complicated than that. Their sans religion titles will continue to be published by Random House. Their overtly Christian titles are being published by Zondervan

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Messy God, messy science

Mark Vernon, a former Anglican priest and now popular author and scholar of philosophy in Britain reports on a recent conference held at the Physics Department Oxford hard by the storied halls of Keble College.

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Torey makes the Newsteam proud

Apparently one of the members of the Episcopal Cafe Newsteam has a special talent that the rest of the team didn’t know about. When it comes to mastering the arcane details of the Simpson’s TV series, Torey is the best of the best in Sioux City.

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BBC’s ‘Rev’ bows

BBC Two has recently introduced “Rev,” a comedy about a modern Anglican inner-city church. U.S. viewers can’t see full episodes yet, but here are some previews. It looks like most of the humor of these semi-real paradoxes of modern ministry will translate pretty well over here.

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Comedy Central’s JC

Comedy Central — the same TV network that managed to both anger and bow to Muslim sensibilities in April by airing and later censoring a “South Park” episode portraying the Prophet Mohammad — is now at the center of a pre-emptive storm over plans to develop a comedy show about Jesus.

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