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Angels & Demons
Date: 11/24/2009
Harvard professor of Symbology Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) returns for another round of save the world heroics peppered with chases, kidnapping, murders, clues, codes, and ancient manuscripts, a beautiful and very erudite woman, murky motives, and a lot of historical, religious, and artistic arcana, all to the music of angelic choirs and crashing horns. While the book occurs before the blockbuster ...
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Modernist Christianity will die
Date: 11/25/2009
Via reader A. Artaud, Father Dwight Longenecker, a Roman Catholic priest, has a list of why modernist Christianity cannot survive over time. He's right. Excerpt: 1. Modernists deny supernaturalism and therefore they are not really religious. Now by 'religion' I mean a transacton with the supernatural. Religion (whether it is primitive people jumping around a campfire or a Solemn High Mass in a ...
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Christian Vampire Novels: Finally Joining the Twilight Trend (sort of)
Date: 11/24/2009
The runaway success of Twilight long ago ensured that bookstore shelves would become saturated with vampire novels from authors and publishers hoping to hit the Twilight jackpot again. A little over a year ago I wrote a feature for Publishers Weekly called "The Next Dead Thing" that pondered whether this trend of novels featuring all-things undead was already, almost, well, dead . The proble ...
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A 'Supernatural' Search for God
Date: 09/25/2009
I never really enjoyed the later "mythology" episodes of the " X-Files ," but sat through them dutifully so that I could get to the delicious monster-of-the-week episodes. But, I've never felt that way about " Supernatural ," the CW's scarily witty and wittily scary show about demon-hunting brothers, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) Winchester. This "Hardy Boys" meets " X-File ...
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Inspired by Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol': 10 Myths About Freemasonry
Date: 09/17/2009
In the new book "The Lost Symbol," by Dan Brown ("The Da Vinci Code," "Angels & Demons"), Freemasonry plays a prominent role in the storyline--symbologist Robert Langdon is asked to help find a Masonic treasure. As expected, the book has stirred up curiosity about the mysterious organization. Author and practicing Mason Jay Kinney clears up some of the misconceptions about Freemasonry, includi ...
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'The Lost Symbol': The Most Heavily Guarded Secret Since...
Date: 09/11/2009
A great international secret is being kept! According to "The Guardian" (United Kingdom), the secret is protected "under 24-hour guard in its own chain-link enclosure, with two locks requiring two separate people for entry." What is the secret? The Ten Commandments? The Holy Grail? Area 57? The President's Book of Secrets? Nope. Instead, it's Dan Brown's latest novel, "The Lost Symbol," which arr ...
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Week in Review: 'Melrose Place,' Glee,' Vampire Diaries,' Supernatural'
Date: 09/11/2009
September is here and that can mean only one thing: new television! Ok, it also means that kids are back in school and the leaves will soon be turning, but there's nothing like the lure of brand new episodes of your favorite show, or your soon-to-be new favorite show, to dull the pain of a too-quickly-ended summer. This past week was an absolute treat for connoisseurs of cheestastic drama with the ...
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Summer 2009
Date: 08/29/2009
The end of August is the worst time of year for movies. This makes no sense to me. I would think that people would want to see some good movies before the end of vacation. But it has been true for as long as I can remember and this year is no exception. Because Labor Day comes so late this year, we have two weeks filled with movies not screened for critics like "Halloween II," "Final Destinati ...
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In this clip from the upcoming Ron Howard film, a priest talks about the war the Catholic Church is fighting with the Illuminati and how "science and religion are not enemies."
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