Wait a minute…the fourth wise man? I may be Jewish, but I’m pretty sure (mostly from Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”, and more recently from “The Nativity”) that the account of the magi visiting baby Jesus only has three wise men.But in a recent advertisement for energy drink Red Bull, the fourth wise man was…

This is the second in a series of blog posts about “The Golden Compass” by guest blogger Tony Watkins, author of “Dark Materials: Shedding Light on Philip Pullman’s Trilogy ‘His Dark Materials.‘” I wonder how aware Philip Pullman is of the deep irony at the core of his trilogy, “His Dark Materials,” the first of…

Huffington Post’s Danny Shea took “The View’s” Sherri Shepherd to task yesterday for claiming that Christ predated the ancient Greeks during a discussion of philosopher Epicurus on the gab fest. “Naturally, talk soon migrated to the topic of religion, and Sherri ‘I don’t know if the world is flat’ Shepherd came out to play,” writes…

It’s not only a busy holiday season but a busy Oscar season as well, as most movies that are nominated for Oscars are usually released in the final two months of the calendar year. “Atonement”, directed by the man who brought us “Pride and Prejudice,” is a lushly filmed love story set against the backdrop…

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