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Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2017
For a former believer, The Christians at Steppenwolf is a stunning reminder of a personal crisis of faith

A former Christian reflects on the spiritual struggle portrayed in Lucas Hnath's latest play.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: It's Complicated, Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, The Christians, Jesus, This American Life, Ira Glass, Carlton Pearson

News & Politics, Chicagoans Dec 28, 2016
What does an ‘agnostic atheist’ believe?

“Humans don’t know shit from shit in the grand scheme of things,” Kelly Baron says.
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: Chicagoans, Kelly Baron, agnostic atheist, Scientology, theology, religion, atheist, agnostic, Jesus, Christianity

Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2015
High heels and lipstick keep this Lutheran pastor from being mistaken for the church secretary

"As a woman pastor, you always need to dress up, or people think you're the secretary," says Katie Hines-Shah.
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: You Are Here, Chicagoans, News, Katie Hines-Shah, Lutheran, Jesus, evangelical, Grey's Anatomy, Macy's, Arby's, You Are Here, Chicagoans, Anne Ford

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 26, 2014
Recommended
Colm Toíbín's one-woman monologue gives the Madonna something new—a voice

The Testament of Mary finds a mother of God filled with fury and heartbreak
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, The Testament of Mary, Victory Gardens Theater, Middle Ages, Jesus, Mary, crucifiction, Christianity, Dennis Zacek, Colm Toíbín, Henry James, The Master, Linda Reiter, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best unrealized films

Notable films that never made it to screen
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Alain Resnais, Stan Lee, the Monster Maker, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jesus, historical Jesus, David Cronenberg, Pierre David, Marry Shelley, Frankenstein, The Fly, Robert Bresson, Genesis, Dino de Laurentiis, A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, Harold Ramis, Steven Soderbergh, David Gordon Green, John Waters, John Belushi, John Goodman, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Zach Galifianakis

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Dec 4, 2013
Recommended
A Christmas dance at the Art Institute

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presents an on-site response to an 18th-century Neapolitan creche.
- By Jena Cutie
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Nutcracker, Art Institute of Chicago, Naples, the Nativity, Bethlehem, Jesus, Mary, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 18, 2013
Recommended Video
Still climbing toward The Mountaintop

In Katori Hall's play, Martin Luther King Jr. faces his own Gethsemane.
- By Keith Griffith
- Tags: Theater Review, Martin Luther King Jr., The Mountaintop, Court Theatre, Katori Hall, The Lorraine Motel, Gethsemane, Jesus, David Alan Anderson, Coca-Cola, Recommended, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Apr 10, 2013
Recommended
Overwhelmed by Underneath the Lintel

This First Folio show is worth a little apostasy.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Wandering Jew, Jerusalem, Golgotha, Jesus, Second Coming, Glen Berger, Underneath the Lintel, First Folio Theatre, Alison Vesely, Kristine Thatcher, Michael Joseph Mitchell, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2013
Trappin' for Jesus and fighting fatigue at SXSW

Plans to see Chief Keef and MC Jin on our last day at SXSW didn't pan out, but at least we had fun with what we did.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music, SXSW, Jesus, trap, Third Man Records, Third Man Rolling Record Store, Lantern, MC Jin, NPR, Chief Keef, Jack White

Blogs, Bleader Dec 19, 2011
Video
Testament Week: Salvation terminator

Testament Week begins with Luke 6:27-29
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Religion, Testament Week, Film, Piety, Variations on a Theme, Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Bleader, Linus Van Pelt, Book of Luke, Jesus, Sermon on the Plain, New Testament, Chase Bank, Hollywood movies, Christian Bale, caramel corn, religious texts, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2011
Big hitter fights for medical marijuana
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Crime, The Reefer, Politics, Clout City, News, marijuana, Jesus, medical marijuana, pot, cannabis, cannabis caravan, Jason Christ, Jean-Claude Brizard, Montana, California, Michigan

Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 2011
This is what theocracy looks like

The Republican candidates tackle the key biblical issues in Iowa Saturday.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Politics, News, Clout City, Republican presidential race, Republican candidates, Iowa, Thanksgiving Family Forum, gay marriage, First Federated Church, Des Moines, The Family Leader, Fox News, Frank Luntz, God, Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, economy, foreign affairs, monogamy, God-fearing, heterosexuals, homosexuals, Bob Vander Plaats, Iowa supreme court, Candidate Vow, bigamy, polygamy, polyandry, childbearing, constitutionalists, judges, downsizing government, biblical principles, Sharia Islam, human rights, totalitarian, conjugal intimacy, military, commingling, slavery, African-Americans, taxes, Jesus, traditional marriage, sanctity of human life, conception, Gary Johnson, New Mexico, Muslims, gays in the military, abortion, Norman Rockwell, political polling, CitizenLink, Tom Minnery, sexual harassment

Music, Music Feature Jul 30, 2009
The Passion of David Bazan

At the Cornerstone Christian rock festival, a fallen evangelical returns to sing about why he broke up with God.
- By Jessica Hopper
- Tags: Music Feature, Crickets, Music, "In Stitches", Barsuk, John Herrin, David Dark, Leonard Cohen, David Bazan, Cornerstone, Cornerstone Music Festival, Pedro the Lion, Sufjan Stevens, alcoholism, Calvin College Festival of Faith and Music, Pentecostal church, WTO protests, Curse Your Branches, evangelicals, God, Jesus, Christianity, religion

Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2007
Timeless truth revised again

The secular world forces religion to become more humane.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Religion, Christianity, University Of Chicago, Jesus, Morality, Martin Marty, Paul, David Instone-Brewer, Craig Keener, William Heth

Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2006
Does the Christian Right really take the Bible literally?

How the Christian Right reads the Bible
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Religion, Christianity, Christian Right, Margaret Mitchell, University Of Chicago, James Dobson, Tom Delay, Bible, Jesus, Literalism, Research

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