‘Benji: Off the Leash’

Remember Benji? He’s back. “Benji: Off the Leash,” the character’s fifth motion picture, hit theaters last August and is now available on DVD and VHS. It’s being hailed by families and critics as a solid family film. “Benji: Off the...

There’s More Than One Way to Show Your Rear End

In the early weeks of the NFL playoffs, a player who has become renowned for his antics on and off the field was cited and fined by the NFL for mockingly “mooning” the fans of the opposing team. For the totally uninitiated, “mooning” is a...

Spirituality a Buzz Word and Important Trend

Spirituality is a buzz word, a vague term and an important trend in North American religion. Spirituality is a buzz word in North American popular culture. To explore, visit a bookstore and peruse the spirituality section. (When there are books such as Spirituality...

‘The Aviator’

Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest directors never to win an Oscar. He made “Raging Bull,” considered by many to be the greatest movie of the 1980s, and “GoodFellas,” which others consider the greatest movie of the 1990s. Still, he has not...

Blue Like Jazz

On an unseasonably warm Wednesday evening in mid-January, I set out for the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville to see a program featuring Donald Miller, author of a popular book called “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality.” As I...

Where is God Now?

Soon after arriving in Sri Lanka, just two days after the catastrophic tsunami leveled village after village, I found myself confronting a very personally challenging question. On the road south from the capital, Colombo, we drove past what was left of the Queen of...