I'm a godmother!

My best friend had her first baby yesterday, Lydia. Everyone is doing well last I heard. Time to brush up on my spoiling technique!

Nobody does it better

I have a piece online about The Da Vinci Code. So does Mark Steyn. As usual, his is better.

(I also have up an interview with Steve Saint, about the controversial casting of End of the Spear, though it's a little late to be mentioning that.)

Give Dan Brown credit for this much

Yesterday morning one of our pastors began a four-week series on The Da Vinci Code. It was an excellent sermon steeped in church history -- which is something we hardly ever talk about at my church. He actually apologized that we weren't going to open our Bibles that morning, but just hear about extra-biblical historical sources.

Heck, we even recited the Nicene Creed!

Don't get me wrong, I love my evangelical church very deeply. But there's no denying we're lacking in knowledge about the church's historical foundations. And it's knowledge that we need. Without it, you get people like this guy. And, of course, people like Dan Brown.

We were way overdue for this. It's just a bit of a shame that it took a bestselling piece of heresy to make us get into it.