Boston College student paper The Heights ran a 2/12/09 story about the

crucifix/Giotto

sudden appearance on the Jesuit campus of multiple crucifixes and icons, Crosses Meet Mixed Reacton:

Students and professors may have noticed a few changes in the Boston College atmosphere upon returning from winter recess: a fresh blanket of snow on the landscape, the removal of holiday decorations, and crucifixes hanging above chalkboards in every classroom. This University initiative with the intention of promoting Christian art throughout campus has received mixed results from both faculty and students…..

Winter recess? Does Jesuit Boston College really want us to be reminded of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia where the evil White Witch has cast a spell so that Narnia is always winter and never Christmas?

And are crucifixes merely art?

There has been much comment about the return of the crucifixes.  Various reactions have been recorded by the Boston Herald, Boston Globe,  Massachusetts’ Worcester Telegram and Massachusetts TV station WBZ.

If you’re wondering why crucifixes…

Thinking ahead to what is on the calender in the next week, here are some excellent books I’ve discovered in recent months.

May 11: Mother’s Day

The Christian Grandma’s Idea Book: Hundreds of Ideas, Tips, and Activities to Help You be a Good Grandma by Ellen Banks Elwell.

The Christian Mom’s Idea Book: Hundreds of Ideas, Tips, and Activities to Help You be a Great Mom by Ellen Banks Elwell.

* In both of these books, Elwell puts her own encouragement and insight into the mixture along with the words of hundreds of other mothers and grandmothers. These books are short on ivory-tower theory, and long in practical advice, sensible living, and Christian encouragement.

May 14 : The 60th Anniversary of the state of Israel

On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel’s Best Friend by Timothy P. Weber.

Future Israel: Why Christian Anti-Judaism Must Be Challenged by Barry E. Horner.

* Sixty years. Given the furor Israel faced in even…