A New Anglican's Journey

My friend at Anglican Journey has a great post on the contrast between Ash Wednesday and the opening of Mel's latest film.

It has been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows, and here we see another version of this truism. People who routinely criticize violence in film (regardless of context) are now defending what may be the most violent film ever (some reviewers are calling the violence "pornographic") and conservative evangelical Protestants who often deride Catholics are flocking to see a very Catholic presentation of the Gospel.