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Soul Surfer—in 30 seconds!

Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:34 PM Comments (3)

I just want to say: How often does the opportunity come to rhyme “island” and “Thailand”? You have to appreciate these things when they come. (Soul Surfer full review)

 

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What translation is that you’re holding? Is it a Protestant Bible, representing your capitulation to Protestant rebellion which mutilates the full content of revelation, or a Catholic Bible, which Bethany would not have accepted, representing your glossing over of difficulties with the shallowness of Hollywood piety?

@ Pachyderminator: Ha! Best. Unanswerable. Combox. Cross-examination. Question. Ever!
 
I wasn’t sure, so I had to check. It’s a KJV … representing the fact that I wanted a Bible that looked like the one Dennis Quaid reads at Bethany’s bedside when he quotes the verse I mentioned … and, in our library of Catholic and Protestant Bibles amassed from, um, having been Protestants and then become Catholics, it was the only black-leather, gilt-edged Bible we had.

Ah, that makes sense. I was afraid it was one of those “Fireside” leather-bound NABs.

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Steven D. Greydanus is film critic for the National Catholic Register and Decent Films, the online home for his film writing. He writes regularly for Christianity Today, Catholic World Report and other venues, and is a regular guest on several radio shows. Steven has contributed several entries to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, including “The Church and Film” and a number of filmmaker biographies. He has also written about film for the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy. He has a BFA in Media Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and an MA in Religious Studies from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, PA. He is pursuing diaconal studies in the Archdiocese of Newark. Steven and Suzanne have seven children.