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Out with the Old (Testament) and in with the New (Testament)

With the passage of some weeks the History Channel’s miniseries “The Bible” begins to fade from the public eye and embark perhaps on a gentle migration (as so many fleetingly popular titles do) to the bargain price video bin at Walmart. I have already delved into some of those aspects of the series that catches the eye of this feisty non-Christian (focusing on Genesis, the Samson Tale and the Exodus), and will conclude with the transition the story took from Old to New Testaments.
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10 years later, Mister Rogers is still making neighbors

| Jun 13, 2013

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (RNS) Fred Rogers, the man behind the long-running “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” children’s show, died 10 years ago, but his influence is still felt deeply here, the city he called home.
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Can a Christian watch ‘Game of Thrones’?

| Jun 4, 2013

Is there anything morally redeeming about “Game of Thrones”? Does the hit HBO series even have a moral vision? The show is certainly entertaining, almost addictively so, and as “Games of Thrones” wraps up its third season on Sunday (June 9), the ratings reflect that popularity...
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BRIEF: Third Day coming to Lilac Bowl

| May 30, 2013

Christian rock band Third Day will be performing during the Lilac Bowl at Spokane's Riverfront Park on July 13. Also performing during the local SPIRIT FEST event will be Colton Dixon from American Idol
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“Aladdin Jr.” enchants audiences at the Bing

| May 29, 2013

The audience sitting in the Bing Crosby Theater was whisked away to the city of Agrabah, where every beggar has a story and every camel has a tail. The Christian Youth Theater of Spokane’s spring production of “Aladdin Jr.”, premiered May 24 at the Bing Crosby Theater.
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Multitalented Lowry credits God-given gifts for successes

| May 9, 2013

When Mark Lowry was 9 years old in the late 1960s, his parents made sure he got to record an album. They realized their young son had a gift for singing and with his teenage years fast approaching, they worried his voice would change. “My dad paid $500 so I could record that album,” Lowry said. “I have wonderful parents. They found out what you were good at and then fanned the flame.”
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When God puts his thumb on the scale

| Apr 28, 2013

Herewith is part three of my secular/atheist reaction to The Bible series on the History Channel. Knowing of the reality series roots of Mark Burnett, the product he and his wife produced is threatening to become a theological version of The Biggest Loser: trimming line by line all manner of inconvenient Bible text (from Genesis to Judges) to leave the leaner, tidier finished product beaming at the end.
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Samson and other delinquencies in “The Bible”

| Apr 12, 2013

Roma Downey and Mark Burnett’s miniseries “The Bible” on the History Channel sparked some deserved head scratching on this site and elsewhere as to how many liberties with a source text are OK in a dramatization. This is serious enough when it comes to secular history (recall the Connecticut Senator who bristled at how his state’s delegation was incorrectly depicted in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln”) but takes on added gravitas when the source text is held by millions to be holy writ. The issue becomes more interesting if a dramatist’s liberties with the text err on the side of rationalization: leaving things out which if included might cause viewers to see the story in a very different way.
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Why public schools should teach the Bible

| Apr 8, 2013

The headline for this post is the same as the title of a March 1 article in the the Wall Street Journal, by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, producers of the new History Channel miniseries "The Bible". Roma (who starred in the reverential "Touched By an Angel" series some years back) and her husband Burnett (successful producer of reality shows like "Survivor" and "The Apprentice") have definitely got a mission, feeling America’s children are getting a raw deal by our present educational establishment: “It’s time to encourage, perhaps even mandate, the teaching of the Bible in public schools as a primary document of Western civilization.”
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Tonight’s benefit concert to help Spokane refugees

| Apr 5, 2013

World Relief Spokane will be putting on its first benefit concert tonight at the Bing Crosby Theater. Crème Tangerine, a Seattle-based Beatles tribute band, will be doing the honors. The concert will be at 6:30 p.m.
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BRIEF: Jewish Film Fest coming to Magic Lantern this week

| Mar 11, 2013

The annual Spokane Jewish Cultural Film Festival will begin March 14 and continue through the weekend at the Magic Lantern Theater. Proceeds benefit Spokane Area Jewish Family Services, which provides programs and support services to help strengthen families, children and individuals of all ages in the Spokane community, while incorporating Jewish principles, culture and values, according to the JFS website.
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