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While accepting his award for Best International Film for The Zone of Interest at the Oscars on Sunday, director Jonathan Glazer spoke about the ongoing attack on Gaza, and not everyone was impressed. Glazer's film follows the life of a Nazi commandant whose house is just outside Auschwitz concentration camp. During his speech, Glazer addressed the Israel-Hamas war. SNIP Glazer took to the stage with producer James Wilson, both of whom are Jewish, and said: "Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for...

Now that we’re passed the Golden Globes, it’s Oscar time and many Christians around America are hoping - and praying - that Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ will win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The possibility, a major long shot, no longer seems that outrageous now that the film has already won the People's Choice award for Best drama. Over the past year, I have been a vociferous critic of The Passion. Many of my Christian brothers and sisters have been extremely puzzled that, given my staunch admiration for the morality of the Christian faith in general,...

Even when I lived in Oxford between 1988 and 1999, the Church of England was rapidly becoming a rotting corpse. Church attendance was at such an all-time low that one survey claimed than less than 5 percent of congregants were regularly in attendance. An embarrassingly high number of Church of England vicars were saying in surveys that they questioned the existence of God. I recall how one Sunday morning I was the guest on a religious TV show debating the existence of the devil. Accompanying me was a Roman Catholic priest and a Church of England vicar. The priest said...