Chronicles Magazine June 2011

The Triumph of Nice

Philip Jenkins - MAY 02, 2011

Imagine reading an interview with the founder of a new Christian church. As the interviewer points out, new denominations are scarcely a surprising story, so what makes yours so different and noteworthy? Well, explains the prophet, we have a...

VIEWS

The King James Bible at 400: Love's Labor's Lost
Aaron D. Wolf - MAY 02, 2011
I was in seventh grade, and we were downstate for the annual Bible Bowl. Our little fundamentalist school fielded a team every year. We were the most conservative of fundamentalists, which mean that we were King James Only (affectionately KJVO).
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VITAL SIGNS

Kings Row Revisited
Ray Olson - MAY 02, 2011
I preferred Reagan when he was openly pursuing the actor’s trade, especially in Kings Row, which, from age 10 to 14, I tried to watch every time it was the Friday or Saturday late movie on one or another Twin Cities TV channel.
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IN THE DARK

The First and Final Command
George McCartney - MAY 02, 2011
Director Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men quietly, one might say austerely, meditates on the faith and courage of nine French Trappists who faced death at the hands of Muslim fanatics in Algeria 15 years ago.
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Beyond the Revolution

Our Sacred Anticanon
Thomas Fleming - MAY 02, 2011
“Been to church?” he asked. Dressed in a suit at 10:30 on Sunday morning, I was forced to admit the fact. “I’ve read the Bible; I’ve read both bibles,” he said in a tone that suggested he was just making conversation.
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NEWS

Glenn Beck, the Straight Dope
W. James Antle III - MAY 02, 2011
A few years ago, I was invited to appear on Glenn Beck’s television show. We were scheduled to discuss the nonsecurity spending Congress had stuffed into the supplemental appropriations bill being used to pay for the Iraq war: money for peanut...
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NEWS

A Saint Is Born: An Interview With Roland Joffe
Matthew Rarey - MAY 02, 2011
The brilliant new movie There Be Dragons was not made as a corrective to The Da Vinci Code, yet its portrayal of St. Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei (“Work of God”), is sure to generate wholesome interest in him, the Church...
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Chronicles Magazine June 2011

The Triumph of Nice

The King James Bible at 400: Love's Labor's Lost

Kings Row Revisited

The First and Final Command

Our Sacred Anticanon

Glenn Beck, the Straight Dope

A Saint Is Born: An Interview With Roland Joffe

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