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August 2008

August 07, 2008

It's A Hard Knock Life…

Last year, my wife and I got hooked on the HBO Sports series Hard Knocks...

July 2008

July 03, 2008

The Afterlife and The Sopranos

This fall, I will be taking a course entitled "Nonviolence, Power, and Evil" in which...

April 2008

April 13, 2008

We're Here and We're….Religious?

So I just finished watching the Compassion Forum on CNN, a political debate between Democractic...

March 2008

March 27, 2008

On the Radar…

I loved Deadwood. I think I watched all three seasons in a matter of two...

March 10, 2008

The Wow Factor…

Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the World might be a lesser-known production than the BBC

March 05, 2008

Recently On TCM…

Turner Classic Movies recently debuted a documentary entitled Thou Shalt Not Sin. The documentary examines...

February 2008

February 03, 2008

Super Sunday

Happy Super Sunday! Super Bowl Sunday is the high holy day of American Civil Religion,...

February 03, 2008

Shame Ain't Worth It…

I have wanted to write about the HBO crime drama series, The Wire, for quite...

January 2008

January 09, 2008

An Extra Special Series…

Whoever says there's nothing good on television must not have a DVD player, a local...

November 2007

November 20, 2007

Dispatches from AAR…Take 4

With my last day and a half turning into something of a wash, the last...

November 20, 2007

Dispatches from AAR…Take 2

The second session I attended was also sponsored by the Religion, Media, and Culture Group...

September 2007

September 20, 2007

Heroes…

NBC just keeps the hits rolling. Returning prime time successes include the aforementioned Friday Night...

September 20, 2007

Friday Nights…

One of my favorite television programs from last season is Friday Night Lights. Despite poor...

September 10, 2007

Battlescars

The death toll of suicide bombers and the weekly body count/injury report of the war...

September 10, 2007

HBO: Homogenous Box Office?

The new television season is fast approaching. Week one of the NFL is nearly in...

September 06, 2007

Are You Ready for Some Football?!

To help celebrate the upcoming NFL season, which starts in just a few hours as...

August 2007

August 27, 2007

Better Late Than Never…

I am speaking here of both my review of God's Warriors and the program itself. ...

August 20, 2007

The Religions Will Be Televised…

This week, CNN is devoting 6 hours of its prime-time programming to a discussion of...

July 2007

July 26, 2007

The Spiritual Simpsons

So here they are, on the eve of The Simpsons Movie's release, my top three...

July 15, 2007

Green Programming…

Robert Redford’s Sundance Channel has become the first cable network to intentionally devote a portion...

May 2007

May 08, 2007

For the Grey's Fans…

I do not watch "Grey's Anatomy," but I realize that so many people do. A...

April 2007

April 07, 2007

HOPE

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly is simply a fantastic television news magazine that unfortunately every PBS...