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October 2017

October 09, 2017

NatGeo’s The Story of Us Misses the Full Story

Morgan Freeman is one of the United States’ most beloved entertainment figures. He’s appeared in...

July 2017

July 13, 2017

Little Love for Faith in Emmy Nominations

TV has never been better, no question. The television landscape is so saturated with prestige...

April 2017

April 22, 2017

NatGeo’s Genius Showcases Einstein’s Heart and Mind. What About His Soul?

The biggest revelation from National Geographic’s Genius: Albert Einstein could be kind of a jerk....

March 2017

March 03, 2017

CNN Finds a Pretty Good Show in Finding Jesus

If you took each hour-long episode of CNN's Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact Forgery and distilled...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

CNN Examines Historical Christianity in Finding Jesus

There's been a lot of talk about "fake news" lately. Even real news gets called...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

The Story of God: Is There Anybody Out There?

For two seasons, National Geographic's The Story of God With Morgan Freeman has taken us...

January 20, 2017

The Story of God: Finding Heaven in Hell

What is heaven? What is hell? And how do they impact how we live right...

January 13, 2017

The Story of God: Are We All Chosen?

National Geographic’s fascinating series The Story of God With Morgan Freeman kicks off its second...

October 2016

October 30, 2016

Did The Walking Dead Go Too Far? A Watching God Podcast

More than 20 million people watched last Sunday's Season Seven premiere of The Walking Dead....

October 19, 2016

We’re All Fixer Uppers

A confession: My wife and I watch HGTV’s Fixer Uppers, starring Chip and Joanna Gaines,...

October 17, 2016

Why Is Everyone Scared of Clowns?

We're all being attacked by clowns. People across the United States say they're seeing red-nosed,...

September 2016

September 23, 2016

Fox’s The Exorcist is More About God than The Devil. Here’s Why.

You just can't keep a bad demonic force down, I guess. It's been 45 years...

September 19, 2016

The Heavenly Comedy of NBC’s The Good Place

Ancient Egyptians thought that life went on after death, as long as you knew the...

September 07, 2016

How Logical Spock Gives Us a Surprising Example of Spirituality

The starship Enterprise may reportedly have plied the galaxy in the 23rd century, but it...

July 2016

July 24, 2016

Sneak Peek for ‘Born This Way,’ A&E’s Inspirational Show on Down Syndrome

God doesn’t make mistakes. It’s one of Christianity’s favorite clichés. We go to it when...

May 2016

May 03, 2016

Are Miracles Real? Just Look Around.

The final episode of National Geographic's The Story of God series (airing May 8), "The...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

The Story of God: The Devil Inside

My favorite scene in "Evil," the May 1 episode from National Geographic's series The Story...

April 19, 2016

Can the Big Bang and Genesis Both Be True?

In National Geographic’s April 24 episode of The Story of God, “Creation,” host Morgan Freeman...

April 12, 2016

National Geographic Asks, Can We Ever Know God? Answer: Sorta

"What is your concept of God?" I was in high school when I was first...

April 06, 2016

The Curious Charm of the Apocalypse

When I was a boy, the first real book of the Bible I read on...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Producer James Younger Talks About NatGeo’s ‘The Story of God’

"I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues,...

March 22, 2016

Daredevil Goes to Church

The chase ends in a church. It's the culmination of a frantic running confrontation—one that...

March 16, 2016

Why Of Kings and Prophets Failed with Faith-Based America

ABC’s Of Kings and Prophets (the second episode of which aired last night) was supposed...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

To Kill or Not To Kill? That is the Question For Superheroes

Deadpool, the latest cinematic superhero movie from Marvel, opened big this weekend, banking around $135...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

X-Files: Signs of Promise

Much has been written about the greatness of The X-Files—how the original series revolutionized television,...

January 08, 2016

2016 Will Be Huge For Entertainment and Religion

The United States is getting more secular all the time, we’re told. And yet religion has never...

November 2015

November 21, 2015

Is NatGeo’s Saints & Strangers a Show to be Thankful For?

Thanksgiving is, in some ways, America’s most devout holiday. There are no bunnies or men...

November 09, 2015

What’s America’s Favorite Pastime? Religion.

The United States is growing more secular. According to data released earlier this month by...

November 03, 2015

A Little Light in ‘The Walking Dead’

The Walking Dead has always been more about the good and evil inside the living...

November 01, 2015

Looking for a Science/Religion ‘Breakthrough’

Science and religion are sometimes portrayed as mortal enemies—worldviews that are completely incompatible with one...