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...disciple who betrayed Christ goes on trial, and his character witnesses range from Sigmund Freud to Satan himself. Guirgis's Shavian fantasy is not a jokey stunt, but a bold, blasphemous examination of the notion of forgiveness. Philip Seymour Hoffman directed a riveting -- and unjustly ignored -- production for off-Broadway's Labyrinth theater, sparked by Eric Bogosian's slick turn as the Devil...
...board, and the major health agencies, the churches, the universities and a whole generation of politicians who were raised to believe that foreign aid was about as politically sexy as postal reform. And that is where Bono's campaign comes in. He goes to churches and talks of Christ and the lepers, citing exactly how many passages of Scripture ("2,103") deal with taking care of the poor; he sits in a corporate boardroom and talks about the role of aid in reviving the U.S. brand. He gets Pat Robertson and Susan Sarandon to do a commercial together...
...motif in the life of Davis, he believes that he did not become complete until a fellow athlete advised him to truly live the will of God. “The reason I’m living an abundant life is because I gave it all over to Jesus Christ,” he said. “Until you give it all over to him, you’re always going to feel a hole. The only thing that fits in there is Jesus.” Davis, who addressed life struggles ranging from being released by NFL teams...
...Neyfakh’s favorite Andrew Lloyd Webber tunes streamed from the boombox to the right of the stage. While the rest of the team cartwheeled and posed in perfect synchrony, Green stuck her solo handstand with the help of teammates Dolan and Thompson. “Jesus Christ Superstar” transitioned dramatically into the grand ensemble number from Cats, “Mr. Mistoffelees.” A minute and a half of the program was up, and the team held their fear inside as “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina?...
...storytelling principle at work in Rice's Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, which is her version of the Holy Family's return from Egypt's Alexandria to Nazareth and a Holy Land rocked with violence following Herod's death. Rice is Catholic, but when she focuses on Joseph, she is writing not hagiography but a modern description of his leadership of a sizable clan and his reluctance to tell the boy Jesus too much of his backstory until he is more mature. "I think he was a resolute man, an unshakable man, but he had no need to make...