A friend of mine was at the Young Life conference last week and had a chance to watch Mel Gibson's new Passion of Christ movie. He said he was blown away by it. He was telling me that he's as desensitized to TV/Movie violence as the next guy, but the the scene where Christ is beaten is so graphic that he had to turn away. I asked him about the subtitles, and he said they don't really take away from the power of the movie. James Caviezel, the character who played Christ spoke to the group as well which he said was excellent.