Learning from Our Native American Neighbors, today

Land Acknowledgment as A Small First Gesture

This year, our online magazine is highlighting emerging stories about relationships with our Native American neighbors. We have been reporting on both the tragic history and the multi-faceted opportunities, today, in establishing such cooperative relationships. As residents of North America, we have an enormous amount of work ahead of us, including coming to terms with centuries of trauma in North American Indian boarding schools.

For this week’s Cover Story, we asked journalist and author Bill Tammeus to report on an important nationwide effort to open up these relationships by taking a small first step: land acknowledgment. His story not only explains the practice of land acknowledgment. Bill also provides many links to great reading and online resources—including a very useful Native Land app for smartphones. Please, read this story and share it with friends.

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From Our Correspondents—

Larry Buxton: ‘Dear Prudence’

Rediscovering the Cardinal Virtues

IN THIS WEEK’S ‘LEADING WITH SPIRIT’ video, author Larry Boxton reminds us: Next to the Seven Deadly Sins, the Cardinal Virtues are apt to look pale and unenterprising—but appearances are notoriously untrustworthy. Larry zeroes in on Prudence and points out how that virtue, alone, can be both a huge challenge and a very helpful guide. Note: In the illustration above from the Vatican palace, Raphael painted (from left) the Cardinal Virtues of Fortitude petting a lion, Prudence holding a mirror and Temperance holding reins. If you’re curious, here’s a higher res version.

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Susan Stitt: National Family Caregivers Month

 

Helpful Tips for Caregivers

FRONT EDGE PUBLISHING Marketing Director Susan Stitt shares two helpful columns this week as we all prepare for National Family Caregivers Month.

WE ARE CAREGIVERS—In this special section of our online magazine for caregivers, Susan shares links to two of the most important websites that act as national clearinghouses for helpful information about caregiving.

In our Front Edge Publishing column, this week, Susan also specifically invites our authors and contributing writers around the world to send us news items about your own work related to caregiving.

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Holidays & Festivals

Happy Halloween—and related holidays!

WE’VE GOT the story about Halloween 2021, plus related observances at this time of year. Plus, in that story, you’ll find helpful links to tips for parents and ideas for parties and family fun.
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Lighting Up the Night for Diwali!

COMING NOVEMBER 4—In her Diwali column, Holidays & Festivals expert Stephanie Fenton writes, “In recognition of the triumph of light over darkness, Diwali bears great significance for Hindus, Jains and Sikhs alike; as awareness of Indian culture spreads, major celebrations now are hosted around the world.”

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WANT TO SEE ALL THE UPCOMING HOLIDAYS & FESTIVALS?—It’s easy to find our annual calendar of global observances. Just visit  InterfaithHolidays.com

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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 discussion guides to films. This resource is used coast-to-coast by individuals who love the movies and by educators, clergy and small-group leaders.

Among Ed’s free reviews and columns:

1. SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THUNDER—In recommending this film, Ed McNulty writes, “Director Kelly Rundle’s film about the students’ debates in 1834 over slavery at Cincinnati’s Lane Seminary is based on the play by Earlene Hawley and Curtiss Heeter.“
2. THE GUILTY—Ed writes, “Director Antoine Fuqua  and writer Nic Pizzolatto have done a fine job of adapting a 2018 Danish film to the American scene. The film is a thriller, a very intense one, but one with a social conscience that deserves to be seen and discussed widely.”
3. MASS—”This is one of the best films I have seen this year. It includes one of the most powerful scenes of grief and reconciliation that I have seen in a film.”
4. FLAG DAY—Ed praises this film in which three members of the Penn family portray the family of a con man.
5. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)—”This is the 70th anniversary of the release of this classic science fiction film. It stood out at the time as the most intelligent film of the genre, carrying a message of peace and tolerance during the onslaught of the Cold War. Unlike other sci-fi films, the menace to Earth came not from alien monsters but from humans themselves.”
6. SON OF THE SOUTH—”Writer-director Barry Alexander Brown’s film is based on Bob Zellner’s well-received 2008 autobiography The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement.”
7. THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE—Ed praises the new film about the lives of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and says it’s likely to surprise many viewers.
8. REMINISCE—Ed McNulty writes, “Writer-director Lisa Joy blends film noir with science fiction in this tale set in a near future Miami whose streets are being flooded as climate change causes the ocean to rise. Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) is the jaded detective whose specialty is the past.”
9. COME FROM AWAY—”The horrific events that occurred 20 years ago on 9/11 reveal the evil depths that humanity can sink to, but this filmed version of David Hein and Irene Sankoff’s Broadway play celebrates the heights to which humanity can rise.”
10. DAYS OF GLORY—”Co-writer/director Rachid Bouchareb provides a very different perspective on World War II in this tale centering on four North African Muslims who enlist to free what they regard as their fatherland, France.”
11. RESPECT—”Director Liesl Tommy and writer Tracey Scott Wilson’s film biography of Aretha Franklin certainly deserves our respect—and gratitude.

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