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To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part Two
Maybe it was instinct that sent me back to relive the 1924 Olympic Games. In Part One of this reflection, you found me despairing, feeling a sudden collapse of my lifelong will to write. Slumped on the couch, I was watching, of all things, Chariots of Fire. As a child, I loved this movie. But it wasn’t until college that I saw how it stands in stark contrast to so much evangelical entertainment, how it avoids....
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To Run and Not Grow Weary – Part One
So, why Chariots of Fire? Why is that what I chose for tonight’s movie? Netflix is recommending all kinds of recent, highly rated titles. Why revisit this old DVD? It happened like this: Two hours earlier, I’d taken the car, planning to drive north to a waterfront park to work on my novel. I planned to walk along the beach and watch the sun’s long surrender while ideas filled my head. Then I’d veer into the nearest café....
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Are You Ready For a Miracle?
Caution: Lourdes is a movie that may complicate your prayers. And prayer is complicated enough already, isn’t it? You’re probably familiar with scriptures that advise us how to pray. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I sometimes read those passages as if they were the troubleshooting page of a user’s manual, hoping I might find I’ve overlooked a step, a secret, a keystroke....
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Emergency Boy
When we see a frantic streak of red and white charge down a city street, we know what it means: Emergency! In the new film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, The Kid with a Bike, that frantic streak of red and white is the emergency. His name is Cyril. He’s 11 years old. He wears a red jacket with a white stripe down the sleeve. And as the movie opens, we learn he’s been abandoned. Traumatized, Cyril....
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“All of It was Music”—Pete Horner’s World of Sound, Part 2
Air travel and a head cold—it’s a hellish combination. Your ears swell shut and your head feels like it’s exploding. It’s an experience that disturbed Pete Horner. “I felt disconnected from the world...because my senses were temporarily limited.” It’s how he feels while watching a movie with a shoddy sound design. In his work as a sound designer....
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