The Anti-Manichaeist

My friend Solly has posted a summary of John Yoder’s theological politics. 
The church tells the world what is the world’s own calling and destiny

I saw X men 3 this morning.  I had treated myself to Xmen 1 and 2 the past two nights and so I was all prepped on the story line.  X men 3 picks up a little later than when X men 2 leaves off.  It does help to be fresh with the earlier films […]

My friend Matt shares some anecdotes about how most congresspersons in WashDC are so quickly forgotten. 
[This] proves once again the utter vanity of human endeavour. Whatever thoughts of making an impact upon his nation, even a Congressman ultimately comes to the same end as the rest of us, neither memorialized nor much remembered.
I wrote in a comment […]

I found about a quiz that tells you what sort of Apologeticist you tend to be.  I took it twice and put the 2nd scores on the right.  Here are my results. 

I just found out via Jesus Politics about how TPMCafe has author Michelle Goldberg talking about tidbits of her book that’s coming out on Christian Nationalism as proto-fascism. 
I don’t know yet what to think of it, but I do think I may tend to under-estimate the changes in ideology going on in Red America. 
 I can […]

is going to be based on Maryellen Ashcroft’s The Magdalene Gospels.  It’s a historical fictional account of how ten females who accompanied Jesus during his ministry get together and tell stories about how he impacted their lives. 
You heard it hear first.  Here is a quote from her in reaction to the purported feminism of DVC…
“When I […]

In continuing my practice of paying attention to how non-Christians react to DVC, I thought it was worth passing on the reaction of a British Scientist Atheist poster at TWeb, EvoUK. 
I’ve heard his books may have encouraged some to question their religion, but IMO that’s just substituting opium with heroin. If anyone begins to question […]

Someone in Vatican City is kicking or maybe whipping themselves right now for abetting the great economic performance of a so-so movie, the Da Vinci Code.  According to the WaPo, it just fell short of the Passion of Christ in first weekend sales of an adult-oriented movie and it just fell short of how Star Wars:Episode III […]

Frequent commenter, Steve Andresen, shares with us his thoughts after seeing DVC.
I saw this movie last night.

Much thanks to Alan Avans of the emerging Christian Democratic Union for responding thoroughly to my ideal-type party platform.  I wrote back a reply. 
It’s not a perfect marriage, but pretty impressive.  I think the politics of abortion may be a bit difficult and I have to admit, despite all the other great stuff, I cannot […]