To help celebrate the upcoming NFL season, which starts in just a few hours as the Saints visit the NFL Campion Colts, Bob Costas devoted his weekly sports journalism show on HBO, Costas Now, to, you guessed it, football. The hour-long program was composed of four excellent interviews with San Diego Chargers running back Ladainian [...]
I am speaking here of both my review of God’s Warriors and the program itself. I did not finish the series until tonight, having been out of town over the weekend and the DVR failing to record the Muslim episode until Saturday night. Despite Christiane Amanpour’s assertions to the contrary, this series seems to be [...]
This week, CNN is devoting 6 hours of its prime-time programming to a discussion of three major world religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights from 9-11 pm ET, CNN corespondent Christiane Amanpour will host a series of documentaries called God’s Warriors which focuses on God, politics, and the global fight [...]
So here they are, on the eve of The Simpsons Movie‘s release, my top three “Spiritual Simpsons” episodes. I’m off to catch the midnight show with all the other fanboys(girls), but if you are waiting until later in the weekend to see it, let these memories of the good old days tide you over.
Robert Redford’s Sundance Channel has become the first cable network to intentionally devote a portion of its weekly primetime broadcasting to “green programming. Most of the programs are documentary in nature but all focus on the effects of global warming on our planet and what we can do to curb those effects. A more “practical” [...]
I do not watch “Grey’s Anatomy,” but I realize that so many people do. A friend directed me to this interesting article which is a feminist critique of the show. Despite my ignorance of the show, the author’s comments are persuasive. Comments, Grey’s fans? The New Modern Woman, Ambitious and Feeble
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly is simply a fantastic television news magazine that unfortunately every PBS affiliate does not air. Here is a great article they ran on preaching hope and resurrection in New Orleans nineteen months after Katrina: Easter Hope in New Orleans
