J.B. Spins

According to this film, Christian missionary work is tantamount to a deadly sin. Candice and her family came to Ecuador to provide food, tea...

In Chinatown and The Two Jakes , it is water and oil that fuel corruption. Now, money from green energy greases palms and fills dirty pocke...

In 1960, the Soviet Union launched a campaign lionizing Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev to encourage Russian pride during the post-St...

What is the proper role for a priest? Should he fight for justice or maintain the balance of power, like a 1970s State Department bureau...

Albert is no Mr. Wizard. He is an embittered community college professor gone to seed, but Shmuel wouldn’t know the difference. For the ...

Eric Liddell, the Olympic runner who wouldn’t compete on the Sabbath, was born and died in China, so he is still frequently referred to a...

Scandinavia is known for its Calvinist piety and sexual permissiveness. It is the former that offends a particularly nasty serial killer....

Haim-Aaron could be the Orthodox Jewish Dannion Brinkley or Betty Eadie, but notoriety is the last thing he wants. He was not seeking gro...

In “Yellow Days,” Sinatra sang about “when the sunlight had a special kind of brightness.” This is a different sort of Yellow Day, but it...

It is impossible to make broad generalizations about the depiction of Christianity in Korean cinema. Yes, there are the crude stereotypes...

The depth of your religious conviction is a lot like your sex life. If it works for you, that’s swell, but the rest of us really don’t wa...

It is hard to say which are dumber in this non-mystery: the Christians who willingly sacrifice themselves in rituals that violate nearly ...

Shouldn’t all those snakes be on a plane somewhere? Oh, but this is the back hill country, so these serpents have been provided for your ...

Pastor Sung is sort of a Korean Elmer Gantry, except he is the closest thing to a good guy in this dark animated examination of human nat...

It seems like the only job Martin Bonner can get involves doing the Lord’s work.  He has decidedly mixed feelings about that.  Yet, his ...

Life as an undertaker’s son was probably not easy for a Georgia teenager, even before the crematory scandal.  Based on the notorious cas...

An expansionist Eastern regime is dead set on war with Japan, at a time when America’s defense capacity and influence in the UN are both...

Alina is either tragically codependent or possessed by the Devil.  Radically different measures would be required depending on the diagn...