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November 2014

November 07, 2014

The Jewish Roots of Christian Worship for Churchgoing Dummies

Today we bid farewell to regular contributor Bradford Winters who has written more than 100...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Detonating Jonah

When news broke this summer that Sunni extremists with ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq...

August 2014

August 12, 2014

Escape from the Holy Land, Part 2

By Bradford Winters Continued from yesterday. Soon after landing at JFK from Tel Aviv Friday...

August 11, 2014

Escape from the Holy Land, Part 1

By Bradford Winters On a Friday morning in mid July, I entered Ben Gurion Airport...

May 2014

May 12, 2014

The Great iAm

My lovely mother, God bless her, is cursed. And having just spent a weekend with...

April 2014

April 22, 2014

I Sing the Body Eclectic

No doubt Walt Whitman would have sounded his barbaric yawp from the steaming rooftop pool...

April 01, 2014

My Dinners with Philip Levine

“Poetry makes nothing happen,” W.H. Auden famously claimed—famously and perhaps disingenuously, for if nothing else...

March 2014

March 07, 2014

Her and Him: Digital Love and Divine Analogues

Sunday at the Oscars, Spike Jonze deservedly won Best Original Screenplay for Her, his dystopian...

February 2014

February 14, 2014

My Valentine

Only after I hung up the first time we spoke on the phone did it...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Media Matrimony for Better for Worse, Part 2

In yesterday’s post, I began to explore the questions posed to me by W. David...

January 22, 2014

Media Matrimony for Better for Worse, Part 1

Recently a friend put me in touch with Christian author, W. David O. Taylor (editor...

December 2013

December 05, 2013

This Great Hunger

“Right there is where it started,” he says, pointing out the window to emerald pastures...

November 2013

November 12, 2013

In a Thin Place

“What is a thin place?” the friendly female voice asks in the YouTube video that...

October 2013

October 18, 2013

Breaking Up with Breaking Bad

“It’s over, bitch.” That’s how she put it in no uncertain terms as the credits...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

Roots Trip to the Castles in My Bloodline, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. A tempest of Winters temper—mine—had blown through the Highlands of Scotland...

September 19, 2013

Roots Trip To the Castles in My Bloodline, Part 1

If you grew up in the Seventies as I did, you might recall a popular...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

Yeshua Ha’Mashiach

In drafting my last post, “Orthodox Films Fill the Void,” I intended to end the...

August 07, 2013

Orthodox Films Fill the Void

Living on the F train subway line in Brooklyn, I am regularly exposed to one...

July 2013

July 18, 2013

Camping with God

The exodus (small “e”) was a family of five fleeing the New York summer in...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Mr. Putter: My Kind of Writer

A favorite anecdote that I’ve often shared with other writers dates back to college when...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Prime Time Secrets

Recently I completed work on the first season of The Americans, a new FX drama...

May 02, 2013

The Diameter of the Bomb

By the time this posts more than two weeks after the event, the Boston Marathon...

April 2013

April 16, 2013

The Last Taboo in Hollywood, Take 3

In yesterday’s post I did a “second take” (in keeping with the Hollywood motif) on...

April 15, 2013

The Last Taboo in Hollywood, Take 2

I didn’t plan on there being a second take when I sat down to write...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

The Last Taboo in Hollywood

Ask my wife: I’ve been known to be a sucker for some fairly wooden programming...

March 06, 2013

Vengeance Isn’t Mine

Bring me a fountain pen dipped in blood! And the skin from his back for...

January 2013

January 21, 2013

Secession, or Why This New Yorker Won’t Be Joining the Enlightened States of America

Shortly after the November presidential election, I was sent an e-mail on the assumption that...

November 2012

November 16, 2012

Weathering Disaster from Beirut to Brooklyn

In the terrible wake of Hurricane Sandy which left my family unscathed without even a...

October 2012

October 22, 2012

King of Kings and Showrunner of Showrunners

With the fall season of primetime television underway, the knives are out and the chopping...

October 03, 2012

The Tower of Light

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the makings of a...