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I’ll be gone in Indianapolis all day, and in order to save myself the trouble of culling through comments when I come back, I’m just shutting them down til tonight. So don’t write to me wondering why you’ve been banned. Everyone’s been banned for the day. It’s the only way I can do it…

From the Revealer It’s sobering that the Passion–which has after all furnished the themes and iconography for many of the greatest achievements in Western art–should be reduced to this sort of clinical and near-fascistic sanctimony. More sobering still is the way that most American believers have rushed to embrace The Passion of the Christ on…

At NRO: Jeffrey Stout, a scholar of religion and film, faulted the The Passion for being “not an especially self-conscious important work of art.” He contrasted Gibson’s masterpiece unfavorably with The Passion of Joan of Arc, the 1928 silent film in which the heroine is tortured with instruments that resemble a film projector and reel,…

In India and Egypt via CT’s Weblog, which has many, many other stories as well.
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