It's a joke, right? What else are we supposed to think when someone claims to see an image of Jesus on a tortilla or the Virgin Mary on a piece of toast or the Buddha in a cluster of beehives? I had picked up the book "Look! It's Jesus! Amazing Holy Visions in Everyday Life" … Continue reading Belief’s in a bag of chips, or an ashtray: not-so-new in bookstores
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Leda and the New Testament?: new in bookstores
The Virgin Mother's been called some unusual things: I've heard her likened to the Egyptian goddess Isis. I've read comparisons of her to the Greek maiden Leda (both, the comparison goes, conceived after a divine encounter). I suppose I expected something just as startling or subversive in a new short book by Colm Toibin, "The … Continue reading Leda and the New Testament?: new in bookstores
Nick Owchar 
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