Word: christiane
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...film's success is due in large part to actors who are both faithful to all the social minutiae and seductive enough to keep you watching. Rockwell mostly plays down the spiraling anxiety of his character (though it would be nice if some movie, any movie, had a devout Christian who was not a psycho killer). Beckinsale, the dark lady of the Underworld films, does her sharpest work yet as the town beauty who's spoiling from abuse and ill use. "I don't want to spend the rest of my life taking care of people," Annie says. "I want...
...sure that could happen anymore," chuckles the individual, a churchgoing Evangelical named Joel Kilpatrick, 35. His five-year-old site, a kind of Christian version of the satirical newspaper the Onion, is now recognized as a healthy supplement in an irony-poor culture. Even Zondervan grudgingly admits that the Bible item was "in the spirit of legitimate satire." Rick Warren (WARREN TO BUY SAINTS, BUILD PURPOSE-DRIVEN FIELD) e-mails Lark items to his flock and says, "If you can't laugh at yourself, you have a pride problem. These guys are the best...
Actually it's mostly just Kilpatrick. The son of a Christian musician who played hundreds of churches, he developed a keen sense of the distinction between the Christian message (not inherently funny) and what he calls its social, institutional and political "scaffolding" (a big target). He feels others share that view. "There's a shift," he remarks. "A new generation that without being less Christian is more culturally agnostic" and distanced from the architecture of insularity. "There's a deconstruction going on," he says, "and satire is one of the ways of doing that." Here are a couple of examples...
...Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...North Korean border guards to look the other way when people tried to cross over. Not so now. "It appears the North Koreans have increased salaries on the border, or put more senior guards there, over the past year or so, because things are more difficult now," says a Christian activist working under cover in China. This source, whose group claims to have moved hundreds of North Koreans to freedom over the past three years, says the flow is "now down to a trickle." Public executions, he adds, "are meant to ensure that that remains the case...