"Samson slew however many people. And Shamgar son of Anath struck down 600 people with an ox goad. Those numbers are nowhere near Dexter! But God has this way of using crazy, psychopath sort of people, these flawed messed-up folks, and I've always been drawn to that kind of storytelling."
Scott Reynolds
Screenwriter for Showtime's Dexter!, about a serial killer who preys upon serial killers, discussing the influence of his love for the Old Testament on his work with the TV show (MORPH magazine/faithvillage.com)
"The most urgent thing for ecumenicalism is, namely, that we can't allow the push of secularism to force us, almost without noticing, to lose sight of the major similarities that make us Christians, and which remain a gift and a challenge for us."
Pope Benedict XVI
(RNS)
"I'm wondering when … they will be asked to wear the yellow star."
Mary Bauer
Legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, about thousands of migrant families who she said are suffering under Alabama's tough new immigration law (Birmingham News/RNS)
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