Like Native American prophets voicing hope in the midst of trauma, Charleston asks us—
‘I hope you will see this as a personal invitation to join me and millions of others.’
OUR COVER STORY THIS WEEK welcomes back the venerable Native American theologian, teacher and author Steven Charleston for an interview about what may be the most important book he has ever written: We Survived the End of the World—Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope.
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News from Our Authors—
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Opportunity to Stream with Dr. David Gushee
ON OCTOBER 1, our online magazine’s weekly Cover Story focused on Christian ethicist Dr. David Gushee’s new book, Defending Democracy from its Christian Enemies.
THIS WEEK, Dr. Gushee is offering a three-session “workshop” through Global Immersion.
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Holidays & Festivals
Pope Francis reminds us of St Thérèse of Liseux’s ‘Little Way’
LEAVE IT TO THE VATICAN to add a bit of an arcane historical reference to one of Pope Francis’s most eloquent apostolic letters. We explain more about Francis’s inspiring message—and the historical reference—in our Holidays & Festivals column.
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Remembering Baha’i founders
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WANT TO SEE ALL OF THE UPCOMING HOLIDAYS & FESTIVALS?—It’s easy to find our annual calendar of global observances. Just remember the web address: InterfaithHolidays.com
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Click this movie poster to read Ed McNulty’s review of the film Flora and Son.
To learn more, click on this cover image from the October 2023 issue of Visual Parables Journal, edited by Edward McNulty and packed with reviews and discussion guides to movies, including The Swimmers, Amerikatsi, Fremont and Flora & Son.
Faith & Film
ED McNULTY, for decades, has published reviews, magazine articles and books exploring connections between faith and film. Most of his work is freely published. Ed supports his work by selling the Visual Parables Journal, a monthly magazine packed with film reviews and discussion guides. This resource is used nationwide by individuals who love the movies and by educators, clergy and small-group leaders.
Here are some of Ed’s most recent free reviews and columns:
- THE ORIGIN OF EVIL—Ed writes, “The title of Sébastien Marnier’s intriguing thriller sounds like a metaphysical treatise examining the Genesis myth of the Fall, but it is far more prosaic, focusing upon the patriarch of a wealthy family and a long-lost illegitimate daughter trying to reconnect with her father.”
- FLORA AND SON—”Director/writer John Carney has given us a delightful ode to mother-son relationship.”
- FREETOWN—”Director Garrett Batty’s is a faith film but not one that preaches at you. His script, which he wrote with co-writer Melissa Leilani Larson, tells the true story of a small group of Liberian Morman missionaries caught up in one of the civil wars that ravished that nation.”
- FREMONT—”Iranian filmmaker Babak Jalali’s film about a refugee from Afghanistan is the second immigrant or refugee film that I have seen within the same week. But it is as different from The Swimmers as possible.”
- THE SWIMMERS—Ed highly recommends this film, based on a true story, about “two teenage girls who were among the Syrians forced to flee their war-torn nation and risk the dangerous waters of the Aegean Sea.”
- THE INVENTOR—”The title of the new film by writer Jim Capobianco (and co-director with Pierre-Luc Granjon) refers to the 16th century genius Leonardo da Vinci, voiced in this delightful, animated film by Stephen Fry.”
- THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER—”André Øvredal’s horror film is based on just one chapter, the Captain’s Log, from Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel Dracula.”
- WAR SAILOR—”Norwegian director/ writer Gunnar Vikene has given us a grim visual parable about an overlooked group of World War II combatants—Norwegian merchant sailors drafted into the war effort when Germany invaded their country.”
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