How, you may ask, is it possible for a “film version” of the Book of Kells to remove all reference to Christianity, since the Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript of the four gospels? It seems that the Irish animated film The Secret of Kells references none of the content of the gospels, so does it tell the story of the Irish monks who illustrated the book? Sort of . . . according to the Irish Times, “the film follows Brendan, a plucky 12-year-old, as he fights magical serpents and Vikings while in pursuit of an enchanted crystal.”
Why even bother to put “Kells” in the title?
Carissa Turner Smith is a compulsive reader, writer, and Irish dancer. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Penn State and currently teaches writing and American literature at Charleston Southern University. At age three, she announced that all she wanted to do was “sit at a desk and read and write,” and she has been trying to make good on that promise ever since. Fortunately, she is occasionally distracted from this mission by her husband Stephen and their cheese-obsessed cat. A loyal native of Arkansas, she has always loved the fact that Jesus dwelt in an underappreciated corner of Galilee (see John 1:46). 
