Here: Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Baghdad Blogger and here: Peter Maass of Slate on Salam Pax.
The Bloody Crossroads of Grammar and Politics
The Bloody Crossroads of Grammar and Politics is another find from CE‑L.
A Mighty Wind
Worst movie I’ve seen since Nijinsky. It simply wasn’t funny, and several characters were unpleasant or disturbing for no good reason.
Mostly, We Eat
Mostly, We Eat is a book group website that I found on the Boston Athenaeum website, of all places. It looks like a great site.
Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God
By Jack Miles. Just as good as God: A biography. Even the epilogue and the appendices, on his process and the field of literary criticism of the Christian Bible itself, are good reading.
Repentance in the Greek of the Gospels is metanoia, a changing of the mind. The changing of the mind of God is the great subject, the epic argument, of the Christian Bible. Having blighted his own work and cursed his own image with misery and mortality, God faced an immense challenge. He had to restore his masterpiece. He had to redeem those whom he himself had exiled from paradise. For his own sake and not just for theirs, he had to recover the lost crown of his creation.
Bend it Like Beckham
I saw Bend it Like Beckham last night—what a great, fun movie. Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra), who wants to bend it like Beckham, is pretty and charming, and coach Joe (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is totally hot. The link requires flash or quicktime.
UU World: What Song, by Victoria Safford
Here’s something that makes me tremendously pleased to be working where I work. What Song, by Victoria Safford
Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams
“Part of the history of the Church, not just in these islands but of the Church in many other parts of the world, is the creeping sense that it is not at all surprising that God should want us. God after all has excellent taste! Why should God not want us?” Times Online
SCIFI.COM | Farscape
SCIFI.COM | Farscape has become one of my media addictions.
Christian Century, May 17, 2003
This issue has good, brief essays on being the mother of a soldier and on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The news section is good this issue, as is the little story that reports a grieving father not ready to be comforted asking, “What would God know about losing a son?”