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Actors Audrey Tautou and Tom Hanks in a scene from the
suspense thriller “ The Da Vinci Code," based on the novel by
Dan Brown.
Da Vinci Controversy
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The novel’s impact on religious
ideas in popular culture, he says, is
“quite unlikeanything w e’veexpe-
rienced in our lifetim es.”
A ssaults on “ Da V inci” d o n ’t
jus, com e from evangelicalsor from
Rom an Catholic leaders such as
Chicago’sCardinal Francis George,
who says Brown is w aging “an
attack on the Catholic C hurch”
through p repostero u s historical
claims.
A m ong more liberal thinkers,
Harold A ttridge, dean o f Y ale’s
Divinity School, says Brown has
“wildly misinterpreted” early Chris­
tianity. Ehrm an details B row n’s
“num erous m istakes” in “Truth and
Fiction in the Da Vinci C ode" and
asks: “Why did n ’t he simply get his
facts straight?”
Brow n told N ational Public
R adio’s “W eekend Edition" dur­
ing a 2003 publicity tour - he d e­
clines interviews now - that his
characters and action are fictional
but "the ancient history, the secret
docum ents, the rituals, all o f this is
factual." Around the same tim e, on
CN N he said that "the background
is all true.”
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tute. Thursday, May 18 and Friday,
May 19 at the Hilton Vancouver
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The 14 ,h annual event is spon­
sored by C om m unity A M E Zion
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other students will also be exhib­
ited at local stores.
I n yet another facet o f the project,
the students are w orking with artist
Joseph Becker and the City Repair
Project to construct a bench out­
side G race Academ y. The bench
will be made o f cobb, a material
consisting o f straw, clay and sand
covered with plaster and paint.
A nother one o f the w oodcuts
and poem s is by Kierra Davis o f
Grant High School, a three-year
G race A cadem y veteran. They de­
pict people dancing to a jazz band
at a n ig h t clu b on N o rth e a st
Skidmore Street in 1957.
“ I like jazz music and I like to
dance,” Davis says.
M onia B ow les o f Beaum ont
Middle School, in her first year at
Grace, created a painting o f two
people, one white and one black,
eating together at a lunch counter
in 1953, the first year that this si mple
act becam e legal in Oregon. The
white person is MartinaGangleCurl,
a noted artist and political activist.
B e a s le y , w h o s tu d ie s at
Fernwood Middle School, cam e to
Grace A cadem y two years ago after
her m other told her about the pro­
gram. Cannaday, her “unsung hero,
was not only a lawyer but also
publisher o f The A dvocate, one of
t
P ortland's earliest A frican-A m eri­
can new spapers. In h er poem ,
Beasley im agines herself perform ­
ing this role.
In fact, she says, she has some
am bition to be a writer.
“ I'm keeping a journal, and I
write in it every day,” she says.
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M ovie version o f d isp u ted novel
(A P )— A line from Dan Brow n's
“The Da Vinci C ode” tells you why
it’s easily the most disputed reli­
gious novel o f all time: “ Almost
everything our fathers taught us
about Christ is false.”
W ith 46 million copies in print,
"D a V inci" has long been a head­
ache for C hristian scholars and his­
torians, who are worried about the
influence on the faith from a single
so u rce they reg a rd as w ro n g ­
headed.
N ow the co n tro v ersy seem s
headed for a crescendo with the
release o f the movie version o f “Da
Vinci” May 17-19 around the world.
Believers have released an extraor­
dinary flood o f material criticizing
the story - books, tracts, lectures
and Internet sites am ong them. The
c o n s e rv a tiv e R om an C a th o lic
group Opus Dei. portrayed as vil­
lainous in the story, is am ong those
asking Sony Corp, to issue a dis­
claim er with the film.
Bart Ehrman, religion chairat the
U niversity o f North Carolina at
Chapel H i 11. likens the phenomenon
to the excitem ent in the 19th cen­
tury when deluded masses thought
Jesus would return in 1844.
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