Rebecca Ellen Kurtz | March 29, 2009
I’ve been watching the television series Supernatural (which I absolutely love by the way) and have once again had to shake my head at the incorrect assumptions taught to me in the Christian school I grew up in. First, just let me say that the current season of Supernatural deals with some angels deciding to [...]
Rebecca Ellen Kurtz | October 13, 2008
Spiritual Warfare Musings
Music: Gladiator Soundtrack
I recently finished a book called Rapture Ready! By Daniel Radosh, a liberal Jewish New York journalist who occasionally writes for The New Yorker and is a contributing editor for The Week. Despite the title, this is not your typical Christian book. Radosh provides poignant and many times amusing personal reflections, [...]
Rebecca Ellen Kurtz | September 5, 2008
Rosemary’s Baby, D: Roman Polanski, released in1968 by Paramount
In the film Rosemary’s Baby a struggling actor makes a deal with some elderly Satanists to allow his wife Rosemary (unbeknownst to her) to be the mother of Satan’s baby in order to become famous. The wife barely takes the drug [...]
Rebecca Ellen Kurtz | September 4, 2008
Angel Heart, D: Allan Parker, released in 1987 by TriStar Pictures
In this detective mystery, Louis Cyphre (Lucifer) played by Robert Deniro hires a private investigator to find Johnny Favorite, a former client who owes collateral to Mr. Cyphre at his death for the help received at the beginning of his crooner career. Mr. Cyphre explains [...]
Rebecca Ellen Kurtz | August 19, 2008
The film, The Prophecy, as a whole seems to be a theological question on how humans should view angels and fallen angels - a dialogue free from superstitions and fictional accounts colored by medieval tales created to strike fear in the heart of man. A new question presented is whether or not angels have souls. [...]
