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...Passion of the Christ: The suspense in this film could be cut. With a knife. Any sane viewer of Mel Gibson’s neo-noir thriller will be on the edge of their seat from the moment the Sinead O’Connor-esque Satan figure appears. Will Jesus die? The answer to this question requires two hours of scary, seat-jumping sequences that will leave you disturbed for days. It’s hard to know where to begin with the scares in The Passion—but highlights include 2000 year-old stereotypes about Jews and visuals...
Other struggling cultures have similarly translated godly law into earthly order and in doing so helped ensure their survival. The earliest Christians established a rough institutional structure that allowed them to transmit their ideas within a generation of Christ's death, and as a result succeeded in living through the Roman persecution; the Jews of the Diaspora moved as a cultural whole through the nations of Europe, finding niches wherever they could but maintaining their identity and kinship by observing the same rites. "All religions become a bit secular," says Wilson. "In order to survive, you have to organize yourselves...
...faith impacts everything that I do,” he says. “My relationship with Christ is what gives me purpose; it’s what I’m passionate about. It influences everything in that the reasons that I do things are dedicated to God’s glory...
...Bohemian Rogue: The Life of Hollywood Artist John Decker, Jordan claims that “Bust of Christ,” a small oil-on-oak-panel painting attributed to Rembrandt, is actually the 1939 forgery of John Decker and Will Fowler, two California artists...
Fowler mentions numerous forgeries in his two books, The Young Man from Denver and The Second Handshake, without referring to specific paintings. But in discussion with Fowler, Jordan learned the pair claimed to have faked a Rembrandt entitled “Bust of Christ.” Jordan remembered Fowler clearly explaining how he and Decker painted on an old bureau drawer...