Superheroes and Spirituality: The Religion of the Comic Book
“Superman turns 75 this year, and in the latest cinematic retelling of his story, Man of Steel, Clark Kent is looking as youthful as ever. In fact, the coming Superman movie is one of a number of new superhero and sci-fi epics that demonstrate again our appetite for action flicks – and religious themes.” Read the full article at Religion Link.
Faith in Constitutions: In God Some Trust
“As a general rule, I found, a constitution says more about where a country is a coming from—which bits of history it wants to celebrate, and which bits it wants to flee from or avoid—than about how the nation is now, or where it wants to go.” Read the full article at The Economist.
PBS Documentary Examines Holocaust Survivor’s Religion of Persistence
“Sometimes mundane, seemingly innocuous details can best impress the enormity of a tragedy on those who didn’t experience it. It’s the things that one carries, or “humps”—chewing gum, photographs, an illustrated Old Testament—that define one’s wartime experience…” Read the full article at the Washington Post.
Kierkegaard’s Burning Witness
“If Kierkegaard’s Christianity creates dilemmas for the secular, it has proven equally vexing for his fellow believers.” Read the full article at First Things.
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