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Playmobil Passion? Nein!
By
David Gibson
So get this: An evangelical pastor in Germany does a little “customizing” of some of those popular Playmobil toy figures to make Bible scenes–including a Passion–and the company wants to shut him down. Unfair? Or unfair use? The National Post has the story (in English): “Reverend Markus Bomhard, 38, an evangelical preacher from Eschborn, Hesse,…
Barack Obama: Our first Muslim president?
By
David Gibson
That’s the positive spin one could put on a new survey from the Pew Forum which shows that 11 percent of Americans still believe Obama (who is a professed and profesing Christian) is a Muslim. That’s almost unchanged from last fall, when the air was thick with false reports of Obama’s supposedly Muslim faith. But…
Speaking of March Madness…
By
David Gibson
Here is a moving story about the storybook Villanova guard, Scottie Reynolds. The unbelievable story of Scottie Reynolds begins some years ago with a decision made by a young and scared teenage woman. She was from Alabama and pregnant with Reynolds. She was single and jobless and made the decision to give Reynolds up for…
March Madness? Follia di Marzo? April Fools’?
By
David Gibson
Actually, a blog post from CNS previewing the first volleyball rally ever to be played in St. Peter’s Square. Three hundred kids aged eight to 11 were to play on 16 makeshift courts in the square between 8:30 and 10 a.m., writes Carol Glatz, before Pope Benedict XVI began his weekly general audience at 10:30. The event was…
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