The “R” rating of The Master is well-deserved. Filled with the sexual aberrations, the drunken philosophizing, and the bizarre activities of The Cause and its leader Lancaster Dodd, P.T. Anderson’s exposé of the cultic mind, seen through the eyes of a grossly needy, psychologically disturbed ex-seaman named Freddie Quell, is as raw as one would …read more

Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, who writes for The New Yorker and is a fellow at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of Law. He has written extensively on religion, though exclusively on the most spectacular kinds of the abuse of religion. In this book, he tackles …read more

A recent event at the Richmond Center for Christian Study demonstrated one of the many ways the Consortium of Christian Study Centers seeks to help its member institutions. Chris Daniel, the Director of the Center, knew that the film The Hobbit was due to come out at the end of 2012 and would be part …read more

“What age would you like to be right now?” The question came to me out of the blue, and, considering the source, made me want to answer it with as much caution as I could. I wanted to be right because I knew, though at first glance it appears there could not be, that there …read more