Tag: Popular culture

For your weekend perusal

If you are in search of a thought-provoking chuckle, check out Geez magazine. “Geez has set up camp in the outback of the spiritual commons,”

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Happy New Year!

On behalf of the Diocese of Washington, I am authorized to wish you a Happy New Year. On behalf of my older son, I am

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It’s a Wonderful Life

I realize that I am out of liturgical season here, but the end of Frank Capra’s Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life (which we watched

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The last of The Wire

Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz discuss the heart-wrencing last episode of The Wire on Slate. Here and here. Kotlowitz offers a trenchant quote from Nelson

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The Nativity Story

The first reviews that I read of The Nativity Story were negative, and I decided to ignore it rather than trash it. But recently I

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The weekend

My wife and I thought Stranger than Fiction was much better than the reviewers did. That may be because we would pay to hear Emma

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Friday Night Lights IV

It is only fitting that a blog that was brought into existence by one doomed TV show should champion the cause of another possibly doomed

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Defending the faith

“I’m sick of theology done by cocky salesmen, atheistic or otherwise,” writes Giles Fraser in his review of Richard Dawkins latest argument for atheism. “The

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