Just in from Dr. Fredriksen's lecture. Her topic: Augustine and the Jews... most appropriate for an audience in St. Augustine, Florida.

I'm certainly glad I went, I was entertained, educated, and challenged. I'll not bore you on the substance of most of her talk, for that you can read her books. Instead I'll focus on her comments on "The Passion," or in her words, "Mel Gibson's new action film."

I need time to go through my notes, since her talk was more about Augustine's writings about Jews than Mel Gibson. But Gibson was mentioned early and throughout. The organizers solicited written questions instead fo personal questions. I was proud, not only to have mine selected from dozens of others, but have her answer my question to close the evening. I probably won't have her answer posted until tomorrow morning, but the Question was: