In ‘A Real Pain,’ everybody suffers
“A Real Pain” isn’t an in-depth analysis of the Holocaust. Rather, it is a character study that points to a central fact that we all know – to be human is to suffer, and that suffering can be great or small.
Today I ask you to choose faith
What we really need is faith. Faith in that arc and its bending, faith that what we do counts for something, faith that we can be the friends that God needs now.
Can a robot be a saint? A review of ‘The Wild Robot’
Can a robot be a saint? Put another way, as we enter the AI age, can the intelligence we create achieve holiness?
Revenge is killing us
In today’s world, revenge is killing us. It is killing some much more quickly than others. It kills us, thousands of miles away from a conflict spiritually, making us unwilling collaborators in a genocidal scheme that robs children of their parents, their lives, and a future.
In “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” church’s proclamations of “all are welcome” are played for laughs
Jesus had no barriers, but churches certainly do, and that fact is well-known in our society. So well-known that it can be played for laughs.