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Well folks, it's Jesus Week at Harvard. Sounds funny, doesn't it? Like Fresh Vegetables Month at Charlie's Kitchen or Bill Bradley holding a Week Without Scowling. I'm a Methodist, born and raised on Sundays at church, but even for me the name "Jesus Week," brings up stereotypes: images of a tent revival in the Yard, with people faith-healing pit kids ("Ye art afflicted by Satan!" "I am Satan." "OK! See ye later...
...claim, then, that there is some sort of rift or a lack of unity in the Catholic community is not exactly true. There is a diversity, but not a lack of unity--we are all Catholic. The same is true for the Christian groups planning and participating in Jesus Week--there is diversity of belief and practice, but we are all Christian...
While we recognize that there are substantial differences in the types of Christianity that are professed and practiced by the various groups, and even various individuals in these groups, we do not feel that means that the groups are torn in regards to Jesus Week. We may, and do, hold different views of Christ, of the Bible, of the Church, of evangelization, and of many issues in Christian theology, but we are united in Jesus Week and in informing the Harvard campus about Christianity and its diversity here, as well as building Christian unity...
Moreover, we do feel that every effort has been made to include all Christians in Jesus Week. There is no intention on the part of any group involved of proselytizing or seeking to win converts as a byproduct of Jesus Week. We simply seek to engage the campus in a dialogue about Christianity here, hoping to erase stereotypes and to allow people to learn about what it is that we believe...
...film rests on the shoulders and taut torso of Bale, who as a child starred in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun and played Jesus in a recent TV movie. His Patrick is stylish and creepy--Jack the Ripper in an Armani outfit. Bale's dishy anonymity (he stares at himself and says, "I simply am not there") makes him the ideal black hole at the center of this movie. It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage...