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Nikos Kazantzakis: The author who caused chaos three decades after his death courtesy of Martin Scorsese.

By James A. Haught In 1988, fundamentalist Christians in several nations vented rage and violence because a movie, “The Last Temptation of Christ,” portrayed Jesus as a wavering human, lusting for the prostitute Mary Magdalene. A Parisian theater showing the film was firebombed, sending 13 people to hospitals. Another at Besancon, France, suffered a similar…

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James Baldwin: America’s Greatest Black Writer Was Once a Preacher Who Renounced Religion as a Sham

By James A. Haught James Baldwin, arguably America’s greatest black writer, was a popular Pentecostal preacher in Harlem at age 14 — but at 17 he renounced religion as a sham. Years later, he described his boyhood transformation in an essay titled “Down at the Cross,” first published in The New Yorker, then reprinted in…

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