Advent Sympathy
You may have noticed that at All Saints we’re still celebrating Advent, not Christmas … at least not yet. We sing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” every Sunday, but not “Joy to the World, the Lord is Come." I’m sorry…
The Vibrant Dance of Faith and Science
Andrew D. White was the first president of Cornell University back in 1896 when he published his History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. His little book (919 pages) was a hot item back then, for despite…
Discussion questions for Get Low
Discuss your first impressions of Get Low. What does watching this film leave you thinking about? What do you think Felix means when he announces “It’s time for me to get low”? The original tagline for the film wasn’t the…
A Story That Needs to be Told
I love good stories. Sitting in a rocking chair on my grandmother’s front porch on a hot Alabama summer night, listening to my father and his brothers laugh about boyhood egg-stealing; cold November evenings in northern Minnesota while the Block…
The Meaning of a Good Conversation
Who do you think is happier? People who spend more time talking about the state of the world? Or people who prefer discussing the weather? Given the current state of the world, one might assume the weather would be a…
Reality Revisited: a review of Inception
“Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” George Bernard Shaw in Caesar and Cleopatra Shaw has had lots of fans in recent years. “Constructivists”, as…
Discussion questions for Inception
What were you thinking about as this film ended? What images from the film linger most vividly in your mind? Why do you think you were struck by them so forcefully? In one of Inception’s central scenes 19th century opium…