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Considering badges… Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country’s Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims. "This is reminiscent of the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center…

Here’s a post for you: I’m getting a real upswing in visitors right now – weird, and kind of disconcerting. What do you people want from me? Anyway, I thought I’d take advantage of this and ask for contributions. No, not that kind of contribution. Here’s what I invite you to do: Share any DVC-moments…

A special issue of this excellent ‘zine…an a review of DVC by a numerary Naturally, I was curious to see how Howard would deal with Opus Dei, which had complained politely, but persistently, of being defamed in the book. He responded, all right — by turbocharging the defamation. Not only is the masochistic Silas the…

Many congratulations to Dom and Melanie Bettinelli on the birth of their daughter, Isabella Marie

Church buys out DVC showings You can see "The Da Vinci Code" tonight for free, courtesy of the Discovery Christian Church that meets in Cranberry. In a move that is costing roughly $4,500, the church has bought all of the tickets for today’s 7 and 8:45 p.m. shows at Carmike’s Cranberry 8 theater. "We want…

Stephen Greydanus: A few Christians have optimistically hoped that The Da Vinci Code might provide a potential opportunity for dialogue and discussion about Jesus with people who might not otherwise be open to such discussions. Yet if anything the film seems calibrated precisely to inoculate viewers against any such discussion — to leave viewers with…

From Vatican Information Service Beginning in 1998, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith received accusations, already partly made public, against Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ, for crimes that fall under the exclusive competence of the congregation. In 2002, Fr. Maciel published a declaration denying the…

Referred to before, but now the trailer’s up…"Catch Older Lemon Knower" Just go see.

Aside from various snide remarks and my review of the film, I’m hoping this will be one of the Last DVC Posts. Even those of us who suspected that there was no way this movie could work are breathing a small sigh of relief today. No, the critical reviews do not predict a box-office bomb,…

Excellent piece at Christianity Today – by Gary Burge of Wheaton. He brings together all the points perculating in our culture…DVC…Bart Ehrman…lost Christianities….save this one. I need to run out and do stuff, but do read it – I’ll be back later to pull out some important points – the good news in it is…
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