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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.

“The Da Vinci Code is well spun hokum, a fast paced story filled with historical and religious nonsense. Unfortunately it seems that many readers were deeply disturbed by the hokum. Perhaps they did not have a solid enough grasp on their religious tradition. With the publication of Ms. Welborn’s book they have no more reason…

From today’s WSJ. Not available free online. But…oh. For the first time in 10 years, Mary Wilkinson went to church one Sunday in January. She sat in a back pew at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Stamford, Conn., flipping through a prayer book and listening intently to the priest’s sermon. What drew Ms. Wilkinson back…
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