While the Chopin Theatre in Wicker Park is a limited space, director Mikhael Tara Garver of Uma Productions has made the most of it and then some in her production of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer.
His subordinate priests last week commanded elderly Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, to write them out an Office for faith healing. They want him to prescribe what unctions to use, how to ...
On a wet winter night, the neon signs of Crouch Temple glow with a lonely halo in the Los Angeles mist. Central Avenue, not far from the scene of the 1965 Watts riots, is quiet. But inside the temple, ...
“Interesting,” I mused, because that process of self-abnegation also could be said of one Francis “Frank” Hardy, the title character of Irish dramatist Brian Friel’s exotic stage classic, Faith Healer ...
goes searching for miracles this week. But are they miracles or just chemicals in the brain? That's the question A Question of Miracles eventually gets around to asking. HBO's new weekly series is ...
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In my previous post, I discussed whether antidepressants work mainly via suggestion, or the placebo effect. A placebo resembles faith healing. Yet faith healing is usually considered more a matter of ...