Faith – Two Handed Warriors

Patrick developed his "shield" or "breast-plate" prayer to help him "put on the full armor of God" (Ephesians 6:12) in the midst of the incredible trials he faced in bringing the word of God to Ireland.

The patron saint of Ireland is rarely credited with what was perhaps his greatest achievement.

With production values and writing that far surpass the first two installments, Mark Burnett and Roma Downey's passion project tackles perhaps its most captivating episode tonight. TV has never seen anything like it.

With the success of “The Bible” TV series, and “Finding Jesus” on CNN, I’ve been getting plenty of inquires from people who want to get other Christian ideas picked up by a secular network. In many cases, they’re starting from the wrong perspective.

Reality is failing like the Chesire cat, leaving behind a smile that grows ever more alarming.

"The only way to know for sure if a decision is motivated purely by good ethics is when it is bad for business." Warren K. Stratton, University of Washington School of Engineering

Liddell regarded as a hero in China: Winston Churchill arranged prisoner swap for the Olympic star's release from Japanese prison camp only to have Liddell turn it down so a pregnant inmate could gain freedom instead

The lines that divide the religious from the political have always been more porous than Thomas Jefferson’s imagined “wall of separation” between church and state. Black churches exist as simultaneously religious and political institutions, and that has made them targets.

"Wow, I’ve finally met someone who practices but doesn’t preach." —Sandra Bullock, speaking of Leigh Anne Tuohy, whom Bullock portrayed in her Oscar-winning performance

In a truly post-Christian America, Christians find themselves ostracized, misunderstood, marginalized, and often the victims of seemingly unmerited and scathing accusations. But, the truth is Christians are some of the most giving people on the planet. What went wrong?

Hollywood and evangelical Christians don’t exactly have a harmonious history. So it’s always something of a jolt to be reminded that a group of the latter schedules regular prayers for specific showbiz leaders and media influencers.

Is newer always better? Most people don’t know that current educational practice is less than a century old. Paradoxically, the harder we try to produce great thinkers similar to those of the past, the further we move from the style of education that produced them.

Courage, contemplation, compassion: These are the great ideals of the ancient world. And though their lights are dimming, there is still time to revive them, to examine them, and, if one is so moved, to bring them into one’s own life.

“Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself… When you are able to say, ‘I am … my shadow as well as my light,’ the shadow’s power is put in service of the good.” -Parker Palmer

Ralph Winter, who has helped to produce blockbuster movies such as the X-Men, and Star Trek series, advises aspiring Christian filmmakers against attending film school.

Evangelicalism is a word religion. I'm a big fan of words, but even talking pictures aren't fundamentally about words. Evangelical films over-explain, over-talk. They don't trust the images to do the work.

"I hope to be a catalyst for innovation in the future of seminary education, integrating the best of the arts into the church, seeing cities as classrooms for that integration, and helping the church to become the leading practitioner of culture care." —Mako Fujimura

The blockbuster actor with unflinching faith has a fresh vision for Christianity in film

Religiously unaffiliated Americans are younger, on average, than the general public to begin with, and the youngest adults in the group – that is, those who have entered adulthood in the last several years – are even less religious than “nones” overall.

Headlines scream … Ex-Christians, Young Adults Leaving the Faith, A Generation of Dropouts, Quitting Church, the Rise of the Nones. We are on the verge of a crisis with faith and the faithful in retreat. Could we be the last Christian generation or have we exaggerated a catastrophic problem?

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