William Kilpatrick
If you’ve seen the movie version of Porgy and Bess, you might recall
Sammy Davis Jr.’s rendition of “It Ain’t Necessarily So.” At a church
picnic, Sportin’ Life, a somewhat disreputable character, tries to
convince the others that “the things that you’re liable to read in the
Bible, It ain’t necessarily so.” He then proceeds […]
Clifford Staples
One thing I have learned interrogating, in Socratic fashion, the
so-called atheists, agnostics, and skeptics who are thick on the ground
and on-line these days is that the Christianity they reject is not any
Christianity I would claim as my own, but a false Christianity fashioned
for them by bigots. Rarely, it soon becomes clear, […]
Mitchell Kalpakgian
“The Knight’s Tale” introduces four knightly figures who epitomize the
ideals of their moral code. The narrator, one of the pilgrims traveling
on the pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket, and introduced by
Chaucer as “a worthy man,/ Who from the very moment he first began/ To
ride, searching adventure, held chivalry/ In […]
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