Metaphor?
I’ll let Videogum explain, but yeah, it’s a Blair Witch-style movie about porn.
Anvil or Hammer
April 29, 2012 by at 10:45 pm
On one side of my family: Huguenot refugees, who settled in America to escape the power of Catholic France.
On the other side: Minh Mang, aka the ‘Nero of Indochina’, scourge of Vietnamese Catholic converts and missionaries.
Gives a certain frisson to the singing of ‘Faith of Our Fathers’, let me tell you.
Seriously, Blue Like Jazz was better than it had any right to be.
April 13, 2012 by at 4:52 pm
The hilarious thing is that when I had my marketing meeting with Loyola for Scapulars, someone asked if there was any way I could get tied in with the book and its Emergent Christian following. “No,” said my editor, “Matthew is most definitely Catholic.” And now we get a film that hinges on a confessional scene with an anti-Pope! Hilarious.
Know Your Heresies: Sabellianism
April 11, 2012 by at 12:36 am
One Liam in Three Persons (2010), digital painting by Timothy Lim
The Holy Tri-Neeson (2011), T-shirt graphic by Timothy Lim
Encyclopædia Britannica has more.
The upshot: While we don’t know many of the specifics of the Sabellian heresy, we do know it was a variant of the Modalist heresy. Modalism is, briefly, the notion that the Holy Spirit, the Son, and perhaps — depending on the kind of Modalism in question — the Father, are not essential to God’s Being. Rather (says Modalism), the one God (who may or may not be identical with the Father) is like an actor; the Persons of the Trinity (or, at least, the Holy Spirit and the Son) are like roles the one God plays.
I find that almost all attempts to explain Trinitarianism have to pass through Modalism early on.
“Like Tim Tebow – But Undercover.”
February 13, 2012 by at 10:28 am
Tradition!
December 22, 2011 by at 9:06 am
Just what you’ve all been waiting for: another installment of Lickona and a Jew talk Christmas.
Round One: Positively Irenic!
Round Two: Grumpy, Grumpy, Grumpy.
And now, Round Three: A Jew’s Favorite Christmas Movies.
Well, now, looky here…
December 14, 2011 by at 12:48 pm
Setting the Hook
February 22, 2011 by at 1:29 pm
Go here, listen from 14:30 to 27:00. The bit about cleaning up the devil off the floor is an O’Connor story in real life. But it’s all amazing, if rough on faith.
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