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Go visit The Lion and The Cardinal – he’s got music suggestions and links, his own Stations of the Cross, as well as some fascinating photographs of Holy Week processions in Andalusia.

Ross Douthat in the WSJ: An engaging piece in which Douthat looks the "theocon" label in the face – and embraces it. Take that, Andrew Sullivan! Political movements are often labeled by their enemies. "Neoconservative" was an insult Michael Harrington hurled at Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol during their journey rightward; "queer" was a slur…

I read this book on the trip up from Knoxville today – The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry that transformed Rome. It’s basically a dual biography of the men, highlighting their points of collaboration (few) and competition (many), as well as their contrasting sensibilities and styles.I enjoyed it, although it could…

Here we are again, back on the carriage ride.  Unfortunately, I have no photos to prove it. Forgot my camera. Ah well. At times like that I comfort myself by declaring that isn’t it nice that I’m not one who believes an experience is only really real if one photographs it. I absorbed my lessons…

Related, sort of: 1) If there was a big-blow out media event that was supportive of traditional Christian claims, the NYTimes would consider it its sworn duty to run at least one contrarian op-ed pointing out the flaws of that media event, probably from a self-identified Christian who would be very careful, yet forceful in…

The NYtimes Magazine turns its attention to El Salvador. In this new movement toward criminalization, El Salvador is in the vanguard. The array of exceptions that tend to exist even in countries where abortion is circumscribed — rape, incest, fetal malformation, life of the mother — don’t apply in El Salvador. They were rejected in…

Well, I see Elaine Pagels spoke for herself in the NYTimes this morning Yet those early Christians who loved and revered such texts did not think of themselves as heretics, but as Christians who had received not only what Jesus preached publicly, but also what he taught his disciples when they were talking privately. Many…

Watched the National Geographic Gospel of Judas show. So..here’s the summary. Lots of cheesy re-enactments of the finding of the document, the scholars’ encounters with it, as well as various ancient events. Like, you know, Irenaues SWEEPING the scrolls he’s just finished condemning off the table. The program is split between the story of the…

Philip Jenkins on the G of J. Oh, and do catch the comments on the right hand rail. They’re always so..enlightening. Also dubious are the claims made for the supposed startling or revolutionary qualities of the "Gospel of Judas." Nothing in it—in tone, content, or substance—differs significantly from any one of dozens of Gnostic texts…

Best laid plans of mice and parents… Yes, I had hoped for almost all day Thursday to be spent in Charleston, but ’twas not to be. For, as noted previously, at 11pm Wednesday night, we heard a faint whine: "My ear hurts." Anyone with a child knows that’s just about the worst thing you can…
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