By Gail Reid Special to The InterimEvery Christian should see Mel Gibson's movie, The Passion of The Christ. Not because it's the most authentic portrayal of Jesus Christ's last 12 hours, but because it synthesizes into two intense hours God's plan to save the world at cosmic cost. Passion plays have been popular for centuries, but this movie brings us up close [...]
"…A powerful witness to the truth of traditional Christianity, precisely that force that liberal elites have been trying to still for decades. It's Christianity-and especially orthodox Catholicism and evangelicalism-that denies them their total victory in the culture wars. Proponents of abortion, gay marriage, radical feminism, multiculturalism and postmodernism all harbor a deep fear of the truth claims of Christianity." Crisis editor Deal [...]
amanda bright@home by Danielle Crittenden (Warner Books, $34.95, 322 pages) Reviewed by Christina Tuns The Interim As I began reading Danielle Crittenden's latest book amanda bright@home, I was concerned when the acknowledgments said that the title character had originally come to life in the National Post and Wall Street Journal online. I was concerned that not having read any of Crittenden's serializations [...]
As Mary Ellen Douglas says in our cover story on C-6 (formerly C-13) passing the Senate to become law, the battle is not over. In fact, it has just begun. In many ways, March 11 will be like May 14, 1969, when Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government passed an omnibus bill that legalized abortion. With one defeat in the battle to defend human [...]
In recent weeks, there have been numerous nomination meetings across the country and we are both surprised and pleased with the number of pro-life candidates who are winning their respective party's nominations. We are pleased for obvious reasons: the more pro-life candidates there are, the greater the chance of electing more pro-life MPs, and the more pro-life MPs there are in Parliament, [...]
By Gillian Long The InterimPro-life leaders can be assured there are some young pro-life activists stepping up to the plate to reinvigorate the movement. On March 17, students at the University of British Columbia, University College of the Cariboo, University of Alberta, University of Manitoba, University of Toronto, and Carleton University in Ottawa, working in conjunction with the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical [...]