“The church is not reducible to the flaws and the futilities and the fragilities of one's human capacity. We're all human and fragile.”
Michael Eric Dyson
The Georgetown University professor was speaking at a church about why black members don't leave churches when they disagree with their ministers, and why Catholics didn't leave their parishes at the height of the sexual abuse scandal. (RNS)
“Overall, I'm grateful for the creation of a new generation of Lewis readers. But those who haven't read the book, I fear, will draw the conclusion that the movie is saying, ‘If we Christians go to battle we can wipe them all out.' With a culture so obsessed with violence one could go to the movie and walk away with the endorsement of violence.”
Ralph Wood
The professor of literature at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, was commenting on the recently-released film Prince Caspian, based on C. S. Lewis's book of the same name. (ABP)