Yeah, well, I'm not raising my hopes too high yet. While this is, of course, a good sign of Rice's change of heart, the substance of her comments and some of her sources for her work make me itchy. I'm pretty skeptical about her ability to pull this off and not make me bitter.

But who knows? It's better than vampire fetishists, I suppose, and may draw in some of a crowd traditionally untouched. Here's praying, eh?

Yeah, as far as the book project she's working on, I'm leery. Any book which purports to portray Jesus's life outside of what's reported in the Gospels is iffy territory, and drawing on apocryphal/extrabiblical accounts annoys me - there's good reason why they were never included in the Bible (being forgeries, historically inaccurate, etc.).

Having said that, I do have a book my grandmother lent me long ago which is set up as an interview with Jesus, and Ravi Zacharias has written books which portray conversations between Jesus and Buddha, and Jesus and Oscar Wilde, and all of them were quite well-done. Therefore, I know it can be done...

I'm just glad that she herself has come around.