New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never believed in them, yet I always get caught up with them. I like the idea, I guess, but I’m like a window shopper who can’t quite bring himself to enter the store, much less marry money and mouth. And if I don’t tell anyone that I’m thinking about making resolutions,…
The phrase “crisis of faith” may not exactly inspire action movie music, but it deserves at least one stirring montage: the conflicted believer on his knees, struggling to pray; the drone of a priest’s sermon barely heard as tears slide down the doubter’s cheeks; maybe a visit to the grave of a loved one, or…
Bart Simpson is playing a video game called “Billy Graham’s Bible Busters,” in which you shoot crosses at heathens to convert them to Christianity. Rod and Todd, the neighbour kids, observe his progress. “I got one!” Bart cries. “No, you just winged him,” Replies Rod, “Now he’s a Unitarian.” I remember chuckling at this gag,…
