Heaven and Elle

While paging through the fall style edition of Elle (one must keep up with those important theological sources), I came upon a couple noteworthy, uh, notifications for you. Item one: Queen of the vampire genre Anne Rice is rolling out a new series based on the life of Jesus. I'd allow you to insert your own resurrection joke here if I weren't so unnerved by the specter (ha ha) of the creator of Lestat trying to make a character out of Jesus. Good news for Ron Howard, though--this ought to make his supposedly controversial Da Vinci Code film look as accurate as PBS's From Jesus to Christ.

Item two: Speaking of media vaguely related to Christianity, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is making its way to theaters this winter. I hate it when they make movies out of books I like (still haven't seen The Passion, and don't plan to) and mention this mainly to introduce the fact that I'm reading C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy for the first time. Look forward to discussing it with you soon!

Item three: Black is back for fall. Good news for some of us: