Conchita maintains vigil.
Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP.
Waiting
The Barney Horror
England, Great Britain, and the UK
The difference between England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. Okay, now I get it. So while all English are technically British, not all British are English, right?
CPP on the Terror List
The Communist Party of the Philippines has been added to the US Terrorism List. If that’s so, I wonder if the US-Netherlands extradition treaty can now cover Joma Sison, who continues to live high on the hog in Amsterdam while his NPA minions wreak death and havoc on rural Filipinos, all in the name of a dying ideology they hardly know anything about.
Joshua Foer Meets BJU
Joshua Foer is Jewish, but when his travels take him to Bob Jones University, he decides to go undercover. Then he tries to do it with the Mormons, too. If I ever decide to go to seminary, remind me never to go to BJU.
Update: It’s all gone now. Rest assured that it was funny.
Eugene Peterson’s “The Message”
Update, 2005: Eugene Peterson on spirituality. Now I have a newfound respect for him, more than enough to overshadow my annoyance at “The Message.”
Eugene Peterson’s The Message gets gentle treatment from Bible scholars, mainly because it isn’t presented as a Bible translation. It had better not. I’m not a very big fan of The Message‘s use of “dumbed-down” Scriptural paraphrasing; to me it smacks a bit too much of going beyond what is written.
Of course, that’s most likely just me being a theological snob. I do acknowledge that there are people who are helped along in their understanding of Scripture by paraphrased texts such as this. I am not one of those people.
Mel Gibson as Jesus
Lethal Jesus? Brave Sacred Heart? Mel Gibson, action star and prominent Roman Catholic, may be cast as Jesus in a film about the Passion. I can already see Jesus with blue makeup on half of his face, yelling, “FREEEE-DUUUM!!!”
Update, years later: Well, we all know how that went. So glad Jim Caviezel did it instead.
