“Spellbound” is a perfect movie; “Winged Migration” is visually spectacular.
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D.J. Heaney.
Seamus Heaney’s top hip-hop picks.
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Subtitling the Gospel.
“The true historical framing of Gibson’s script is neither early first-century Judea (where Jesus of Nazareth died) nor the late first-century Mediterranean diaspora (where the evangelists composed their Gospels). It is post-medieval Roman Catholic Europe.”
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Parochial cosmopolitanism.
“At the end of the day, it breaks down to different ways of being American.”
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Iraqi superbaptists.
Plus: How Mel Gibson and the Jesus Seminar both miss the point, and how John Winthrop was a moderate.
Bloggers give their abstractions more than a “nouny place to live”; we sometimes transform their balcony into a stadium, and send the abstractions out fighting.
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Almost cannibalism.
Plus: Elaine Pagels, Isaac Newton, and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the New York Times.
“An individual can take a vacation, but it takes a society to create a holiday.”
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Freeman’s God.
Reflections on Morgan Freeman in “Bruce Almighty.”
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Emerson watch.
George Scialabba on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s life and legacy.