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Tag: Television

Finding God (and faith!) on TV!

August 26, 2016 No Comments

God and faith can still be found on television.

God is written out of “Downton Abbey.”

November 20, 2015 18 Comments

Presumably the Crawley family is Church of England, but the only time you’ll see anything religious on “Downton Abbey” is during a wedding.

The vicar of Grantchester and the wrong whiskey

February 20, 2015 18 Comments

Fans of the PBS series Grantchester will have noticed that vicar-sleuth, Sidney Chambers, has a taste for whiskey and ale. But not sherry, which people assume must

Downton Abbey and the Car-Wreck of Fiction

January 15, 2014 8 Comments

by Kurt Wiesner SPOILER ALERT: Stop reading now if you have not seen Downton Abbey through Episode 3 of Season 4. If you do not

Why are world birthrates falling?

May 14, 2013 2 Comments

Birthrates in most countries around the world are falling according to the

Stargate SG-1, Orthodoxy, and Imagination

July 14, 2011 12 Comments

I recently (last night!) finished a lengthy project of mine, and finished watching Stargate SG-1 on DVD, putting me several years behind those who followed it on-air. For those who don’t know, the show had a mixture of religious themes, mythology, romance, humor, and the US Air Force going into space by walking through wormholes in the Stargate.

What I found in “Lost”

October 29, 2009 3 Comments

As the series has moved through the various seasons, the writers have also been courageous enough to allow the characters to be formed and changed by one another. The selfish thief begins to show leadership qualities, the recovering drug addict shows selfless love for his friends, and a diverse and eclectic group is transformed.