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For God's Sake?
One day producer Sam Zimbalist approached Graham Greene to ask for assistance wi...
The Apple of Roncalli's Eye
Angelo Roncalli, papal nuncio to France (and a future pope), was once invited to...
Loopy?
A lifelong agnostic, W. C. Fields was not entirely unconcerned about the possibi...
Philip K. Dick: Strange Coi...
"About four years after [Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said] was published...
King of Kings
During the production of King of Kings, director Cecil B. De Mille was di...
Thomas Bowdler: Wreck of th...
Victorian to the core, the English editor Thomas Bowdler earned a measure of fam...
Ghost Writers?
Comedian Garry Moore was once the recipient of a television award for spontaneit...
Numitorius
"John Gilbert was once called upon at short notice to play the role of the heroi...
Jawbone of an Ass
Though Cecil B. De Mille's biblical epics were welcomed by audiences, many criti...
Dogma
The Abbe Mugnier was once asked whether he believed in hell. "Yes, because it is...
Franklin Mooning
Soon after George Washington's victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin, then Amer...
11th Commandment?
One evening while dining at Trinity College, Cambridge, Bertrand Russell observe...
Johnny on the Spot?
During a speech one day, Al Gore proclaimed his religious faith, calling himself...
Nutty Newton
Though best known as a physicist, Sir Isaac Newton also developed an acute fasci...
Charles Calvary?
As an undergraduate prank one day, Charles Calverley and some of his classmates ...
Mel Gibson & Psalm 91
During the production of The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson remarked t...
9:02?
While working on his Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti (a chronology of ...
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One of Arthur Verrall's students once remarked that some of their mutual friends...
Passion Play
On the mandatory divinity section of an oral examination at Oxford University, O...
Wicked Bible
The so-called "Wicked Bible" of 1631 reported the Seventh Commandment as "Thou s...
Can't I Own Canadians?
Shortly after the famously fundamentalist Laura Schlessinger attacked homosexual...
Sumner
Little love was lost between Ulysses S. Grant and Massachusetts senator Charles ...
Ten Commandments
One day during the production of The Ten Commandments (1923), Paramount c...
Cohnheads
Harry Cohn's brother Jack once suggested that the brothers join forces to produc...
Holy Moses
In June 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir attended a state dinner honoring...
Moses, 001?
In 2002, a new International Spy Museum opened in Washington, DC. Among the exhi...
Steve 3:16
One night, WWF wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin whupped a Bible-thumping wrestle...
11th Commandment?
A certain businessman, renowned for his ruthlessness, once made a vow in Mark Tw...
Bible Girls?
Many eyebrows were raised when raunchy radio celebrity Liz Curtis Higgs became a...
Kippered
While staying with the Scottish preacher Thomas Chalmers and his family, the Swi...
Sodom and Gomorrah
After a service one day, Joseph Parker (minister of the City Temple in London) f...
Yalta Conference
FDR once expressed the hope that the Yalta conference (held near the end of Worl...
For the Birds
The writer and wit Dorothy Parker once owned a pet canary. She had named it Onan...
Action Figure
In July 2003, ABC News anchor Tony Perkins showed his colleagues on "Good Mornin...
Harry Potter and the Villag...
One day in 2000, J. K. Rowling was astonished by an accusation (levied by the Am...
Wisdom of Solomon
One day two prostitutes sharing living quarters delivered babies within three da...
Autograph?
One day William Bowles gave a Bible to Bessie Moore, the wife of poet Tom Moore,...
James 1:6
One day, a preacher famed for his fearless social criticism was invited to speak...
Holy Logic?
The emperor Menelik took literally Francis Bacon's maxim that "some books are to...
Orpah
Born in 1954, "Orpah Winfrey" was named after Ruth's sister-in-law in the Bible ...
Serenity Now?
Augustine was famed for his licentious youth. Indeed, the future saint had a mis...
The Wheel
During the nineteenth century, dogs were often put to work in restaurant kitchen...
Rod of Chastisement
Lady Astor's maiden speech in the House of Commons was - naturally - about the t...
Water Works
"Complaints were made to the Office of Works (known in the Admiralty as 'Works')...
Muhammad Ali & Jesus Christ
Esquire writer Cal Fussman once found himself discussing the Bible with M...
John Wesley's Journal
"John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, an evangelist who preached 40,000 sermon...
Alfred C. Fuller: Door-to-D...
While working as a door-to-door salesman early in his career, Fuller Brush Compa...
Divine Blush
At London's Westminster School, John Dryden was a negligent student, rarely stud...
Bridge to Babylon?
P. J. Harvey was once asked about her favorite books. "The Bible," she replied. ...
Frederick William's Final W...
On his deathbed, the Prussian king Frederick William was visited by a priest. En...
Good Parts
Pamela Anderson was once asked what books she was reading. "The Bible," she repl...
Laughton & Breen
During the production of They Knew What They Wanted (1940), the tale of a...
Repent Later?
"I get all these Bibles sent to me saying, 'Repent now!'" Elton John once compla...
Lattice
John Eliot emigrated to America in 1631 and devoted his life to proselytizing Am...
Wimpy Heston
Charlton Heston was cast as Moses in Cecil B. De Mille's biblical epic ...
Destiny's Child: Sign From ...
"One day when band member Beyonce Knowles's mother was reading the Bible, a page...
Twain & Twitchell
Mark Twain was visited one day by Reverend Joseph Twitchell, who invited him to ...
One-Eyed Toast
Oliver Gogarty once encountered a friend wearing an eye patch in a local tavern....
Swiftly Speaking
Jonathan Swift, as dean of St. Patrick's, was once called upon to deliver a char...
Inauguration
At his inauguration, George Washington kissed the Bible. It was noted that the p...
Church and State
In August 2003, a huge rock engraved with the Ten Commandments was removed from ...
Princess Elizabeth
One day a preacher leaving Glamis Castle promised to send princess Elizabeth, th...
David and Goliath
"A famous anecdote about Moshe Dayan, the Minister of Defense when the Six Day W...
Jesus's Last Words
Several Biblical passages describe Jesus's last words, among them: ...
Bible Study
Shortly after Louis XIV named Jacques Bossuet bishop of Meaux, the king solicite...
Biblical Metaphor
The first children's book published in America was written by the Puritan preach...
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