Cover Story | COVER STORY: The creative men and women behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy didn't always accept or understand Tolkien's themes, but his worldview still comes through powerfully in the films. The result is a profoundly Christian vision for the postmodern world
International |
IRAQ: Postwar Iraqis are struggling to light their homes and fuel
their cars, but few would trade today's hardships for yesterday's
dictator
Bill Janklow speeds when he drives-shouldn't, but he does. U.S.
Rep. Bill Janklow (R-S.D.), speaking of himself in the third person
during a 1999 speech in…
Wait and hurry up Sean Leach of Jersey City, N.J., apparently had
been too lazy to register his car-until a New Jersey patrolman
pulled him over on Dec. 4.
Howard's end; Kerry's end game Many in the blogosphere state that
Howard Dean is on his way to the Democratic nomination. Here's what
Joshua Micah Marshall…
Carl F.H. Henry was a towering thinker, educator, editor, and
theologian who left an indelible imprint on the evangelical
movement of the past half century.
Movies The final installment of the hugely popular Lord of the
Rings series, The Return of the King, opens in theaters nationwide
this week. The first two…
Culture |
It also seems that Christianity affected Buddhism. Early Buddhism
was for monks only, and the classic goal was to achieve
nirvana-union with the ultimate…
Culture |
FEATURE: WORLD, with other Christians, has called Christ's coming
the fulcrum of world history. But Hinduism and Buddhism, the two
ancient religions that grew…
Culture |
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, the central figures in the hit
reality show The Simple Life (FOX), are what the classic moralists
condemned as "the idle…
Culture |
Watching the new family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen was an oddly
exhilarating experience. On the one hand, it's a mostly unoriginal
attempt to capitalize on a…
No kidding "They're not kidding" (Nov. 22) splendidly summarizes
what I've known for a long time about the left. The way they attack
the right (particularly…
