** Culture Club featuring:
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** Sophie Scholl - The Final Days & The Power of The Powerless
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Monday 26th January - 7.30-9.30pm
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Dear
SPUC supporter,
Be inspired this January and join us for our popular online Culture Club on Monday 26th January (7.30-9.30pm), where we’ll be opening the year by examining two more powerful works of pro-life interest:

In the 1st half of Culture Club …

Sophie Scholl - The Final Days

SPUC’s White Flower Appeal takes place in churches across the country this month, and if you’ve ever wondered how our annual appeal got its name, then you’ll be fascinated by this dramatic movie depiction of the German ‘White Rose’ movement and its courageous young student founder, Sophie Scholl.

Sophie, along with her brother Hans and fellow students, started the White Rose group in 1942 to promote non-violent resistance to the Nazi regime.

In 1943 they were caught distributing leaflets calling for opposition against Hitler. After being arrested by the Gestapo, Sophie and Hans were interrogated, subjected to a show trial, convicted of high treason and executed by guillotine.

The impact of their witness, however, did not end there. After her death, copies of the final White Rose leaflet were air-dropped over Germany by the Allies, and, over the subsequent decades, numerous schools, streets, and memorials — as well as SPUC’s annual fundraising appeal — have been named in honour of the Scholls and the resistance group they started. The White Rose are an inspiration to us in our resistance to abortion. Our Culture Club also takes place the evening before International Holocaust Memorial Day.

Her story of bravery has been depicted in several films, most notably the 2005 Oscar-nominated movie Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, which we’ll be focusing on in Culture Club.

If you’d like to join the discussion, you can watch the movie in advance of the session free on YouTube
here ([link removed]) .

We’ll be considering the ways the movie contributes to the pro-life message, as well as what can we learn from the movie about the art of writing a narrative, directing and film-making —especially, in this case, a story involving interrogation and court-room drama.


** And in the 2nd half of Culture Club ...
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The Power of the Powerless - A Brother's Legacy of Love by Christopher de Vinck

Sarah de Nordwall will lead a reflection on the key ideas and eye-opening experiences of poet Christopher de Vinck's life with his blind, mute and severely disabled brother Oliver, captured in his 1988 book, The Power of the Powerless: A Brother's Legacy of Love. This moving work combines memoir, spiritual reflection, and testimonial voices from readers, creating a multi-layered exploration of human dignity and the hidden strength found in weakness.

As de Vinck explains, ‘Even now, five years after his death from pneumonia on March 12, 1980, my brother Oliver still remains the weakest, most helpless human being I ever met, and yet he was one of the most powerful human beings I ever met. He could do absolutely nothing except breathe, sleep, eat, and yet he was responsible for action, love, courage, insight."

The insights of this book have much to teach us as defenders of life and as writers. It illustrates how one person's story empowers others to reach out, even when their experience runs entirely counter to the 'received wisdom'.

If you would also like to share your thoughts and responses to this extraordinary work, you will find it available as both an
e-book and paperback ([link removed]) from Amazon and other sellers.
How to join us at Culture Club:

Simply click on the Zoom link below:

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Meeting ID: 854 7054 9311
Passcode: 972951

I look forward to seeing you there. For information about SPUC’s Write for Life Academy visit the website at www.writeforlife.academy. Together we can re-build a culture fit for life.
Tom Rogers
Cultural Outreach & Project Manager

writeforlife.academy ([link removed])
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

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