Hundreds of millions of people now know that today (August 14) is Hans Christian Ørsted’s birthday. Today many of them even know, that without his 1820 discovery that electric currents induce magnetism, long-distance communication in 2009 might be conducted via megaphone and carrier pigeon. Yesterday, most of those hundreds of millions had never heard of Hans Christian Ørsted. So what happened?…
Tag: gospel
And the Oscar Goes to…
Item: in a recent e-mail newsletter, Christianity Today, noted that “there is no end” of the making of movies about Jesus. Film critics presented a review of the top ten Jesus movies produced since the early 1900s. The reviewed films ran the gamut from 1905’s Life and Passion of Jesus Christ to Mel Gibson’s highly publicized Passion of the Christ…