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2017-02-17T17:18:38-07:00

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Arts and Faith Top 10 Films of 2016: Part 2

Last updated on: February 17, 2017 at 5:18 pm By Image

Continued from yesterday. [Link to yesterday’s post here] Here are the remaining five films in the Art and Faith Ecumenical Jury’s top ten films of 2016 list, as well as Honorable Mentions selected by each jury member: 5. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick) Knight of Cups is as pure cine-poetry as it is still being released in theatres. Here we’re witness to a cold, sterile beauty, filled with wide-open spaces in L.A. bursting at the seams with negative space.... Read more

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Arrival

Arts & Faith

Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury

2017-02-17T17:18:48-07:00

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Arts and Faith Top 10 Films of 2016: Part 1

Last updated on: February 17, 2017 at 5:18 pm By Image

Though the year of 2016 was a weighty year for politics and world events, it was also a great year for movies. The Arts and Faith Ecumenical Jury of 2016 has compiled a list of ten excellent films we found to be especially noteworthy. This year’s thirteen jury members include professors and pastors, professional film critics and passionate cinephiles, diverse in location and tradition, yet united through the Christian faith. Each member also chose one Honorable Mention, highlighting a personal... Read more

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A Monster Calls

Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury

2017-02-08T18:31:08-07:00

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Poetry Friday: “Afternoon Swim”

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 6:31 pm By Image

The play of grammar has always lured me. I’ve wondered: why do English sentences take the shape they do? So when I reached line 4 of Lance Larsen’s “Afternoon Swim”—with its bold announcement that he was switching from second person to first—I was hooked. Play with grammar is this poem’s medium. I laughed out loud at the course of Larsen’s sentence about another sentence: “a sentence in a Victorian novel fallen against the belly // of a pregnant somebody dozing... Read more

2017-05-09T12:21:00-07:00

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Epiphany in the Memory Unit

Last updated on: May 9, 2017 at 12:21 pm By Guest Contributor

By Cameron Dezen Hammon. The priest’s wife handed me her half full can of beer. It was Christmastime, and the beer she was offering was a Texas IPA, sweating seductively on the table between us. I brought the can to my lips and the slightly bitter taste of the half-warm beer filled me with relief. I needed a drink. It was 7 p.m., and I’d arrived late. We would be heading out to sing carols at the Alzheimer’s unit of... Read more

2017-02-07T17:32:30-07:00

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Anne Fontaine’s The Innocents

Last updated on: February 7, 2017 at 5:32 pm By A. G. Harmon

After World War II devastated eastern Europe, the Red Army pushed into the countries allotted to them as spoils, such as Poland. There, they continued the destructive work that the Nazis had begun. Among those hardest hit were the women religious of Warsaw. French Red Cross physician Madeleine Pauliac, sent to find and repatriate the French who were still in the Polish countryside, discovered that whole convents of nuns had been gang raped by pillaging Russian soldiers. Some of the... Read more

2017-02-07T17:32:36-07:00

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Weddings, Women, Sweets, and Wishes

Last updated on: February 7, 2017 at 5:32 pm By Caroline Langston

My heirloom cookbook was born during a Washington D.C. snowstorm in February of what was then called “The Year 2000,” in my final months of singlehood before I was to be married in July. That storm barely registers in the city’s memory now: it was neither the Blizzard of 1996, with its eight-foot-high snowbanks, 2003’s freak President’s Day storm, nor was it the incomparable Snowmageddon of 2010 (which I wrote about on Good Letters). However, the storm in 2000 was... Read more

2017-02-13T11:08:53-07:00

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Visiting Martin Luther in Minneapolis

Last updated on: February 13, 2017 at 11:08 am By Natalie Vestin

A few weeks ago, I visited the Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Before I left to catch the train, I popped my Swedish great-aunt’s small ceramic squirrel into my bag, knowing that she’d want to come in some way. (She’s likely forcing a plate of pepparkakor and herring on the Almighty right now.) The museum was only open for exhibit visitors, so the side rooms containing casts of Greek sculpture, Ottoman-era Persian... Read more

2017-02-08T18:24:49-07:00

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Poetry Friday: “Erasure”

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 6:24 pm By Image

Have you ever felt that your own existence is being called into question? That you might be real but in the next moment disappear? Robert Cording explores this feeling in his poem “Erasure.” At first the poem’s speaker decides that his life is “too neatly drawn” and needs some erasure, some subtleness. So he goes out into a field as night falls. His experience there becomes more, though, than he can comfortably handle. Cording dramatizes this through masterful repetitions. Watch... Read more

2017-01-31T16:42:00-07:00

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Ready to Run

Last updated on: January 31, 2017 at 4:42 pm By Caroline Langston

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path… And the reason I had wandered off from the straight path, Brothers and Sisters, was because—for the first time in my forty-eight years on this weary earth, I started doing something I sworn up and down I’d never take up: I have started running. I can’t even begin to imagine the level of cognitive dissonance... Read more

2017-05-09T12:21:11-07:00

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Literacy Class: Learning the Language of Love

Last updated on: May 9, 2017 at 12:21 pm By Guest Contributor

By D.L. Mayfield. This past week, I taught my last English class for quite some time. Three years ago, I moved to my new city in the Midwest. Almost right away, I started teaching literacy to people (mostly women, mostly older, all East African refugees) who have been denied access to education. The levels of trauma, displacement, oppression, and prejudice contained in that single educational qualifier “non-literate” are hard to explain. I taught in the corners of crowded libraries, classrooms,... Read more

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