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Sherlock Holmes is the proverbial hard act to act.  He has been played by some of the great character actors on both the silver screen (think Basil Rathbone) and TV (Jeremy Brett).  And all of the stories are so familiar that there are worldwide Holmes societies and scholars dissecting the stories. Look for instance at…

For a moment I thought the email I had received was a prank. I knew we had a reason for celebrating every day of living, but I didn’t know we had these many reasons— in January of all months!  Three days I am definitely adding to my party down list are January 2, 6 and…

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I must confess that I like many of George Clooney’s movies.  He is a fine actor, and has played a huge array of parts from the comic to the tragic and everything imaginable in between.  Some of my very favorite movies of recent years, like O Brother Where Art Thou? are not merely Clooney movies,…

You know the story of Pandora’s box.  By now the phrase ‘opening Pandora’s box’ has become a cliche as well.  But since the movie Avatar is set on a planet called Pandora, and since this movie opens up all kinds of new vistas for film-making, the cliche is unavoidable in this case.   Ann and…

Meet Yardeni Alexandre.  He works for the Israeli Antiquities Authorities at the dig in Nazareth. He is holding  first century pottery shards found at what is becoming known as the ‘Nazareth house’.   The walls of the house itself and the pottery date this house to the early Roman period, which is to say, the era…

Watch CBS News Videos Online(courtesy of CBS)I have spent time in Turkey with His Holiness the Patriarch Bartholomew. He is a wonderful Christian man, and he is very upset with the supposedly tolerant Turkish Government which won’t allow his Christian school to train Orthodox priests to operate among other restrictions. I have also spent time…

Ancient Book of Mark Found Not So Ancient After All  ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2009) – A biblical expert at the University ofChicago, Margaret M. Mitchell, together with experts in micro-chemicalanalysis and medieval bookmaking, has concluded that one of the UniversityLibrary’s most enigmatic possessions is a forgery. The book, a copy of theGospel of Mark, will…

Shimon Gibson is a top drawer archaeologist, an interesting and approachable person, and he has been involved with many of the most interesting archaeological finds over the last thirty years (e.g. the Talpiot tomb). This particular find of a piece of a burial shroud from the first century of a man who had leprosy (confirming…

(Thanks to alert reader Craig Beard for finding this). In these troubled economic times, when money is scarce for many people, it’s important that we remind ourselves, and our loved ones, that the holiday season is not about buying things. Then we and our loved ones can enjoy a hearty laugh, because, of COURSE the…
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