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Art, Life, and the Meaning of It All Up For Discussion – and Combat – in H2O at CATF

Posted on July 16, 2013, 6:28 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theater Reviews and Commentary.

H2O will leave you dealing not only with your feelings about the characters, but also reconsidering art, life, and The Meaning of It All.

Tags: Alex Podulke, CATF, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Culture War, Evalngelical Christians, faith, H2O, Hamlet, Jane Martin, John Ambrosone, Jon Jory, Ophelia, rationality, Shepher University, William Shakespeare
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In the Free Speech Tug of War, the Internet Is the Rope

Posted on September 30, 2012, 8:40 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

There is an overlay of mutual incomprehension in the struggle over the Innocence of Muslims video. But I would submit that both sides still have pretty clear ideas about what is at stake.

Tags: anti-blasphemy laws, blasphemy, Council of American Islamic Relations, Dnemark, European Court for Human Rights, faith, Finalnd, First Amendment, Free Speech, Germany, Greece, holy books, homeland, Innocence of Muslims video, Internet, Italy, Lee Bollinger, Louis Brandeis, Mohamed, Netherlands, Norway, Otto-Priminger-Institut v. Austria, Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, political debate, pronography, Prophet Mohamed, religious faith, Robert A. Kahn, sacrilege, Salafis, Salafists, state religion, sunlight is the best disinfectant, Tug-of-War
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The Big Picture and the Closeup

Posts Tagged ‘faith’

Art, Life, and the Meaning of It All Up For Discussion – and Combat – in H2O at CATF

In the Free Speech Tug of War, the Internet Is the Rope

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