Eric Kohn gets David Cronenberg talking at the NY Press blog about his Jewishness. The last two questions and answers are worth reading in their entirety, but here’s a selection: “I’m always aware of [being Jewish]. It’s always on my mind, but not obsessively. When you’re threatened because of one aspect of your nature, whether it’s your sexuality or your gender or your ethnic background, you become acutely sensitive to it for that moment. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that’s what defines you as a person.”
This controversial Jesus poster had no elephant dung or Obama face on it. But the man who hung it on a wall at the Manchester airport was suspended without pay. Thankfully he’s back at work where he belongs, reports Asian News.
All seems to be well in the restoration of the Royal Presidio Chapel, reports the Monterey Herald, with several of the sort of exciting discoveries that only come with disassembling art and cleaning it.
A great piece from In-Forum, with which I agree in full:
No commandment is missing from the monument at St. Mary’s Cathedral, nor do the Catholic Christians who gather there to worship idolize the many beautiful statues we are privileged to have. Idolatry is the transfer of man’s indestructible notion of God to anything other than God. Appreciation of beautiful artwork that reminds us of Christ and his saints is clearly not idolatry.
Further, the making of religious art is not proscribed. Religious statuary is pleasing to God, and in fact he commanded statues of Angels to be made Ex. 25:18–20, Chr. 28:18–19, Ezekiel 41:17–18. This tired argument, coming from deep-seated anti-Catholic bigotry, is in itself unbiblical and demonstrates an ignorance of sacred scripture.
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