(COMMENTARY) An American film releasing Feb. 1 marks 20 years after the killing of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. An anti-Christian Hindu fanatic murdered the trio by burning them alive while they were asleep in their station wagon in the early hours of Jan. 23, 1999.
Read MoreThe popular Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo has many influences from Shintoism, the native religion of Japan.
Read MoreSince the premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who is America?, many people have compared the British provocateur comedian to American conservative political activist James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. Their tactics are similar. Both don false identities and provoke subjects to say or do unsavory things on camera and both violate standard journalism ethics.
Read More(COMMENTARY) For the Branch Davidians, everything hinged on Book of Revelation texts about the Seven Seals and "the Lamb," a mysterious figure who would open those seals in the Last Days. That was the infamous Branch Davidian drama summed up in one tense exchange, according to the creators of the six-part Paramount Network miniseries "Waco," which runs through Feb. 28.
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