SHADOW OF A DOUBT

    Not to be confused with a one-time cast member on  Law and Order, screenwriter and director Richard Brooks was born on this date in 191...

1936-2025   Who am I to judge? --Pope Francis, 2013   In a televised interview, where we spoke with natural and conversational language, it ...

  I've grown a goiter by dwelling in this den– As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy, Or in what other land they hap to be– Which dr...

    He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and re...

  Clay Bennett on the possible perils of mixing religion and politics.

  (Recent events in the region of the world commonly referred to as the "Holy Land" has compelled me to rerun this post from 6/21/...

  Remember this? Sinead O'Connor's confession to Dr. Phil: Now let's hear what one-time Saturday Night Live bandleader G.E. Smit...

  Other than fanatically seizing upon whatever coincidence that occasionally comes my way, I'm not a religious person and attend no chur...

  A great many people claim to hate Christmas music, but I'm not one of them. I like a lot of different kinds of music, and all the dive...

   Early rock 'n' roller and country music star Jerry Lee Lewis was born on this day in 1935 (he died in...Oh, wow, he's still a...