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Mark Shea

A collection of 8 posts

Specials: Keillor on the Nativity; Newman on Sex in "The Golden Compass"; Shea on Pullman's "Idiots"; "Sweeney Todd"

Garrison Keillor on the nativity. Beautiful. (A nod of thanks to Mark Shea for the link.) * The Golden Compass: Sexualizing Children in the World of His Dark Materials Thank you, Mark T. Newman. (Haven't seen you in years! How are you, man?) * Philip Pullman's Useful Idiots

On Books & Writing

A Singing Sun

Mark Shea, in a moment of genius, quoted Tolkien's The Silmarillion when he learned about this fantastic discovery. Wow. Now I can't wait for the album. And the tour. Who should open for the sun?

Looking Elsewhere

Specials: Gondry's astonishing feet; the great Bob Newhart lives

Is this two-minute video the greatest feet of Michel "Eternal Sunshine" Gondry's career? You decide!! (And no, that wasn't a typo in my headline.) The great Bob Newhart lives on I depend on Mark Shea's blog for insight on many things. But

On Movies & Media

Mark Shea considers the Mel Gibson debacle

Were we seeing "the real Mel Gibson" when he went on his drunken rampage? In The National Catholic Register, Mark Shea takes this question and runs with it... pointing out all kinds of truth along the way.

On Movies & Media

Last post on "Da Vinci Code": a review by Steven D. Greydanus

Okay, to wrap up the week of "Da Vinci Code" reviews, here's Steven D. Greydanus: The Da Vinci Code throws so much mud around that at least some of it is likely to stick in viewers’ minds. Was Constantine really a lifelong pagan who invented the

On Movies & Media

Mark Shea is saving Ireland...

Mark Shea is saving Ireland... from The Da Vinci Code. From Day 4 of his Ireland journal: "That would be offensive." No duh. The only time people fall for this notion that a fictional story which goes out of its way to malign and defame a billion people

On Movies & Media

"The Gospel of Judas" is just an old, stupid heresy...

... and yet, my local newscast jumped on the hype bandwagon tonight, heralding it as "the discovery that is rocking the Christian world." Right. Rocking so quietly as to be almost imperceptible. Rocking so ineffectively that most of the Christian blogs addressing the subject today found the whole affair

On Movies & Media

Ebert on Narnia: Wrong, and Right

UPDATE: Ebert has corrected his mistake! Here's the earlier post... The vigilant Mark Shea notes Ebert's big error: C. S. Lewis, who wrote the Narnia books, and J.R.R. Tolkien, who wrote the Ring trilogy, were friends who taught at Oxford at the same time,