May 31, 2006
A couple of weeks ago, Cindy and I saw The Da Vinci Code. Like the book, the movie is making oodles of money, and upsetting a lot of people of faith, including religiosity salesman Ted Baehr who calls it “Dan Brown’s hate-filled, fictitious attack on Jesus Christ, Christianity, the Bible, Christians and history” (because, you [...]
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September 27, 2005
It almost slipped by without me noticing it, but this is Banned Books Week (September 24?October 1). My favorite book, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, hasn’t been on the list for decades, but is was… Banned in Strongsville, Ohio (1972), but school board’s action was overturned in 1976 by a U.S. District Court in Minarcini v. [...]
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