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...ability to meld such disparate disciplines in one lecture is what keeps his audiences riveted. Kogan argues in an interview that the combination of music and medicine should not be as uncommon as it is, stressing that the two have long been linked—Apollo was the Greek god of both disciplines and, in many pre-industrial societies, shamanic figures use music and dance to heal. Kogan offers George Gershwin as a modern case study, describing the composer’s young life as “a childhood that could have gone off the rails without the influence...
...from Bowser to Nazis to alien invaders. Now, however, a far greater evil waits: Satan.“Ominous Horizons,” a new Christian computer game that challenges players to recover Gutenberg’s stolen Bible from Satan so that “the Word of God will be made available to all.” Video games are only the latest media form in which Christians are playing an increasingly vocal role. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,” released today (see B1), is an extended...
...held late-night meetings for friends and intellectuals. He developed close companionships with fellow academics, most notably J.R.R. Tolkien. On a walk one evening with Tolkien and another friend, Tolkien convinced Lewis that his lifelong yearning for a feeling which he called Joy was, in fact, a longing for God. The friends debated until sunrise, when the middle-aged Lewis became a Christian.Lewis’ conversion from atheism to Christianity influenced the rest of his works and resulted in a series of Christian apologetics. The popular success of books like “The Screwtape Letters?...
...Sony)3/5 Stars“Are you there God? Soy yo, Margaret…er, I mean Shakira.” The Latin diva’s latest album, “Oral Fixation, Volume II,” the English-language follow-up to 2001’s crossover smash, “Dirty Laundry,” addresses all the prepubescent questions of the Judy Blume novel: the Lord, boys, and female self-image. Shakira, however, is a grown woman and should have deeper thoughts than those...
...cites an epiphany-like experience she had years ago while reading Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” as the cause of this frankness. “I stopped in the middle of reading and thought, ‘Oh my God. I’m having a conversation with Tennessee Williams,’” she said. As last Thursday’s group read aloud from “The Long Christmas Ride Home,” it was clear that Vogel’s conversation-like stage...