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** The power of film
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One of my most vivid memories from elementary school was one of those letdowns that seems like a world-ending tragedy at the time. I had plans to go to the movies with my friend Ryan to see Rookie of the Year, a story about a boy who becomes a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs after a freak accident gives him a superpowered throwing arm. But I was delayed when my dad’s softball game went long, and I missed the showtime. Ryan went without me.
All this to say: I’ve always loved movies. But I’ve never had a personal connection to one until this year. My step-dad’s uncle Marty wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book ([link removed]) that served as the basis for the motion picture Oppenheimer. I loved the movie—and I really appreciate this reflection from poet and essayist Kathleen Norris, who was transported by the film back to a terrifying night in 1962 ([link removed]) . As it happens, we have two other new pieces about movies: Philip Jenkins’s overview of the folk horror genre ([link removed]) and Marc Roscoe Loustau’s analysis of the Romanian film R.M.N. ([link removed])
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Email me: What movie has most influenced your outlook on life?
Jon Mathieu
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** The exploding sky ([link removed])
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“Watching Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer this summer, I was surprised to find myself weeping and gasping for breath during the scene depicting the Trinity test blast of 1945. This was something I had seen before.”
by Kathleen Norris
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** The wisdom of folk horror ([link removed])
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“Folk horror is a strategy by which societies confront and exorcise their (literally) buried histories as they force their way back into contemporary spiritual consciousness.”
by Philip Jenkins
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** R.M.N. is a kaleidoscopic allegory of all of Western civilization ([link removed])
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“R.M.N. could be a provocation for liberal Christians to reconsider our belief in the inherent power of moral rhetoric.”
by Marc Roscoe Loustau
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** In the Lectionary for October 8 (Ordinary 27A) ([link removed])
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In an uncertain, murky time, God gives the people a gift: ten laws.
by Liz Cooledge Jenkins
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** Madang episode 32: Robert P. Jones ([link removed])
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Host Grace Ji-Sun Kim talks with Jones, author of The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy, about the Doctrine of Discovery, racism, US history, and much more.
** Liberation theology’s public witness ([link removed])
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“Raúl Zegarra analyzes each of five intellectual luminaries with care and dexterity in support of his main thesis: that liberation theology articulates and expands our best hopes for a democratic future.”
Roderick T. Leupp reviews A Revolutionary Faith
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