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Worst movie I’ve seen since Nijinsky. It simply wasn’t funny, and several characters were unpleasant or disturbing for no good reason.

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Mostly, We Eat is a book group website that I found on the Boston Athenaeum website, of all places. It looks like a great site.

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By Jack Miles. Just as good as God: A biography. Even the epilogue and the appendices, on his process and the field of literary criticism of the Christian Bible itself, are good reading.

Repentance in the Greek of the Gospels is metanoia, a changing of the mind. The changing of the mind of God is the [...]

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I saw Bend it Like Beckham last night—what a great, fun movie. Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra), who wants to bend it like Beckham, is pretty and charming, and coach Joe (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is totally hot. The link requires flash or quicktime.

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Here’s something that makes me tremendously pleased to be working where I work. What Song, by Victoria Safford

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“Part of the history of the Church, not just in these islands but of the Church in many other parts of the world, is the creeping sense that it is not at all surprising that God should want us. God after all has excellent taste! Why should God not want us?” Times Online

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SCIFI.COM | Farscape has become one of my media addictions.

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This issue has good, brief essays on being the mother of a soldier and on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The news section is good this issue, as is the little story that reports a grieving father not ready to be comforted asking, “What would God know about losing a son?”

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Iraq memorial The Guardian’s response to the deaths on all sides of the war in Iraq.

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Paul Robinson, The Philosophy of Punctuation Oh, the things you find out about on CE-L!

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