The Browser, 5/9: Evangelical Manifesto; Koehler on Cannes; Dude still abides!; Neil Young hates mp3s; book reviews; Marion Ravenwood

The Evangelical Manifesto

On the remote chance that you may not already have read it, I should post the news that An Evangelical Manifesto was published and presented earlier this week, on May 7.

The Steering Committee for the document includes...

• Timothy George Dean, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University
• Os Guinness Author/Social Critic
• John Huffman Pastor, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach, CA Chair, Christianity Today International
• Rich Mouw President, Fuller Theological Seminary
• Jesse Miranda Founder & Director, Miranda Center for Hispanic Leadership, Vanguard University
• David Neff Vice President and Editor in Chief, Christianity Today Media Group
• Richard Ohman Businessman
• Larry Ross President, A. Larry Ross Communications
• Dallas Willard
• Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California Author

And, via Ross Douthat, here are responses to it by:

Alan Jacobs (here, and here) and Michael Brendan Dougherty. Other responses will be posted here as fast as I become aware of them. (Well, almost as fast.)

I'm two weeks behind on posting this, but it's too tantalizing to ignore. Here's Robert Koehler musing about the lineup for this year's Cannes Film Festival...

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He concludes with:

Shirin

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Word is spreading fast about the next book by "God Girl" Cathleen Falsani, religion columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times. The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers will be a welcome focus on the quiet but everpresent spiritual questions at the core of the Coens' films.

I met Cathleen Falsani, the author, at the Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing a couple of weeks ago, and it was a pleasant surprise. I've been reading her work here and there for years. (I think I discovered her through Steve Beard's Thunderstruck site.) She approached me after my Through a Screen Darkly lecture to tell me that she was glad I'd brought up No Country for Old Men in the presentation, and went on to tell me about the book. It sounds very cool, but she's got another one coming out right now called Sin Boldly that looks interesting too. Can't wait to read either one of them.

So, learn to make a White Russian, and you'll be all set. When the book arrives, you can kick back every evening with a glass in one hand and Falsani's book in the other, and learn to see the Coen Brothers through a new lens. (I wonder if the book will include Burn Before Reading, or if the printing will happen too late for that....)

Ready for Harvest Moon on Blu-ray?

As well as making his entire back catalogue and a large amount of related items available in one collection of shiny discs, he was striking a blow against the MP3. "Putting on a headphone and listening to an MP3 is like hell," he said. His aim is to give the audience "quality whether they want it or not. You can degrade it as much as you want, we just don't want our name on it".

As book reviewers vanish from newspapers, will anyone stand up and offer a solution? Here's a story of one controversial attempt.

I don't know about you, but are you getting unsettled by Karen Allen's perpetual, ear-to-ear grin in the promotional shots for Indy 4? It's kind of creeping me out. I hope Marion Ravenwood's return to the Indy world will remind us of the tough-talking, punch-throwing dream girl who won our hearts in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Marion gone soft and smiley? Say it isn't so!