Thanks for all the excellent e-mails about the Song of Songs. Several of you argued that the maiden’s “navel” is not her navel, if you get my (southward) drift. My brief research didn’t settle the ...

Films that take their stories from the Old or New Testament are filling screens big and small. To understand why, it helps to know Hollywood history.

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