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Shawn McComber, who watched the New Hampshire primary hijinks for the American Spectator, goes to see the Passion As show time crept closer, some surprisingly un-Christian behavior began. A teenage couple in matching “Jesus: The Choice of a New Generation” T-shirts made out against the wall next to me without the slightest prick of self-consciousness.…

Stephen Prothero in the WSJ In one striking scene, the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene sop onto linens the blood left behind after Jesus’ scourging at the hands of sadistic Roman centurions. Odd that these women care more about Jesus’ blood than Mr. Gibson seems to care about his character. Plainly this is not the…

An interesting perspective (even though the writer had not yet seen the film) from a Christian in the Reformed tradition, trading thoughts with another of the same theological convictions. hat tip, Julia

Via Get Religion the lowdown on the screenwriter for the film, a man named Benedict Fitzgerald, who not only wrote the screenplay for the film version of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood, but who is the son of Robert and Sally Fitzgerald, two of O’Connor’s closest friends. Made for this project, I would say.
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