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The Dude Abides: A Duderific Review of Cathleleen Falsani's Latest

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The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers by Cathleen Falsani; Zondervan, 2010 Cathleen Falsani is easily one of my favorite writers who also happens to be a Christian.  I rather like describing her that way because it's hard to fit her into the typical "Christian" writer mold.  I also rather like that Zondervan publishes her work, which ensures that it at least gets marketed to a "Christian" audience that quite frankly needs to hear what she has to say. Falsani is an award-winning religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times , and a graduate of the slightly conservative, evangelical, private Wheaton College in Illinois.  She's also the author of a fantastic book of essays on grace, faith, God and everything entitled Sin Boldly.   She's also a huge fan of the Coen Brothers , which endears me to her even more.  The Coen Brothers are the writer/director duo that have been responsible for such Oscar winning movies as Fargo, O Broth...