A reminder that organized religion comes in handy religionnews.com/2024/10/02/in-…

Bob Smietana Keep reading Bob's reports on this subject: He's working his way through the many, many religious groups who are on the ground, doing everything they can do. Your non-political read of the day. @GetRe

"Worldbuilding" is so over-rated. Just tell a good story-- and things generally work out. No one wants an instruction manual--they want a story. screenrant.com/greta-gerwig-c…

"In a fractured moment, Leap of Faith reminds us that none of us can be reduced to our stances on any political or theological issue." Kristin Du Mez on the new movie, "Leap of Faith" kristindumez.substack.com/p/a-different-…

I watched an advanced screening of the new film LEAP OF FAITH this week &I loved it. If you're on the left or right, Christian or not, it's a beautiful and challenging film. A breath of fresh air. It's showing in theaters in select cities this weekend. youtube.com/watch?v=4W8bvp…

Had the chance to talk Nicholas Ma--and his cellist dad—about faith and trust and this new movie religionnews.com/2024/10/02/in-…

“What is in common between music and religion is the idea of faith and trust, because faith is a form of trust.” Yo Yo Ma. religionnews.com/2024/10/02/in-…

Bob Smietana In which Bob Smietana comes out strongly against the Silmarillion

Hoping we get a Rust Belt World Series champ.

This made me laugh since Luther could not stop talking about religion. With a hammer. x.com/GuthrieGF/stat…

Bob Smietana Yeah, I find it extraordinarily sus that people wait for teachers to tell them to read books. Also, why are these people being accepted to college?

Via Yonat Shimron: In Chicago, one congregation finds fealty to Israel intolerable religionnews.com/2024/10/02/in-…

Bob Smietana But that's precisely what I mean by an obvious and pretty short-looped correction mechanism. Obviously scientists have the ability to get stuff right. But the primary mechanism for doing so is not peer review, but "dammit, I thought that was gonna work but it didn't".

Bob Smietana TAS Visit the Burnsville Hub page a Facebook. All kinds of names and links to locals and responders. GetReligion

Leap Of Faith: A film by Nicholas Ma – A film by Nicholas Ma leapoffaithmovie.com