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Cozzens admits that unicycling is truly a great passion. However, he emphasizes limits as well. “I don’t want to be ‘that guy’ who rides the unicycle everywhere because everyone would hate ‘that guy,’” he says. Ultimately, Cozzens’ relationship with the unicycle is fairly straightforward. “There aren’t too many deep unicycle thoughts,” he says. “Just ride...
Gibson wrote, produced, directed and recently released The Passion of the Christ, an ultra-violent, divisive interpretation of the gospel story. The movie has been heavily criticized by film reviewers, theologians and viewers alike—but others claim it is uplifting and inspiring. In search of answers to the myriad questions the film stirs up, FM spoke with Harvard Divinity Assistant Professor of the New Testament Ellen Aitken about the film...
Much of the controversy over The Passion relates to its radical take on the gospels about Jesus’ torture and crucifixion. Aitken, who is also an Episcopal priest, believes this disputation is generally justified. “The movie distorts what the gospels are doing, from a scholarly and theological point of view,” says Aitken. She explains that four gospels, by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, tell subtly differing accounts of the passion narrative, and that these four accounts were “by no means eye-witness accounts, or written at or near the time...
...harmonizes the four gospels into one account, so there’s a stripping away of a lot of the detail,” says Aitken. In addition to the four gospels, Gibson drew upon the writings of a sixteenth century nun who had visions about the Passion gospel. This is problematic, Aitken says, because, “it locates the movie in late medieval Catholic theology...
...can’t blame the squad’s new head coach, Sarah Nelson ’94, for her occasional fieldwork. It’s a testament to the passion that drives her coaching which is so obvious to her players...