Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Movies

  • HOLDING TO OUR HUMANITY IN INHUMAN TIME

    “Wake Up Dead Man,” a movie by Rian Johnson and “It Was Only an Accident,” a movie by Jafar Panahi We are just back from the Boston area, where we walked where some of my ancestors walked, explored places we had long heard about but never visited, had thanksgiving dinner with friends, and attended the…

  • BARBIE AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN

    The best biblical movie of the year is Barbie. An additional nod in the way of biblical movies should go to Oppenheimer. Together these summer blockbusters—they are jointly saving Hollywood—mine biblical themes to explore the human condition. They are secular sermons preaching to a secular audience truths the church too often neglects or buries under…