Jude Law gives us a nuanced portrait of a too easily satirized character: the Catholic cleric.
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Sherlock Holmes: Pop Culture’s Christ Figure
What is it about Sherlock; drama that elicits such admiration and, at times, troubling obsessiveness?
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How ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ continues to defy common sense
Today the chances of selling a Christian-themed, anti-commercialism Christmas special would seem just as slim as they were in the 1960s.
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Heaven is a place for self-improvement in a new NBC comedy
The afterlife. For as long as we have been around, we have fashioned stories about how you get there, who lives there and what happens when you arrive.
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Can watching a Netflix series actually make you a better Catholic?
“High Maintenance” and “Easy” train viewers to think outside of themselves and to consider what is going on inside other people’s minds.
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Football could be their best shot at the American dream.
“Last Chance U,” which will appeal to football fans and non-fans alike, covers E.M.C.C.’s 2015 season in beautiful, intimate detail, from training camp to the last day of class.
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Finding God in the mundane, in Polish television
It is hard to say that anything on the small screen has surpassed “Dekalog” since it first aired in 1989.
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“The Path” offers a suffocating view from inside a cult.
Hulu’s new drama raises interesting questions for believers.
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Trying to watch ‘Making a Murderer’ and still believe in God.
‘Making a Murderer’ upends our preconceived notions of who the good guys and bad guys are.
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Faith and family in ‘Blue Bloods’
‘Blue Bloods’ makes us examine our own motives, relationships and faith.