Remembering Our Earth,
Even in a Wooden Bowl
THIS WEEK’S COVER STORY welcomes the Native American writer Steven Charleston, who bridges the realms of Christian and Native spirituality in his many books and talks. In his newest book, Spirit Wheel, Charleston gives us a wondrous array of short, daily readings that he wrote day by day while reflecting on his own life. In our interview, he says, “I am trying to help readers find those places that are already there in their lives. That sense of transcendence and connection is there in all human beings. Finding those and releasing those are a part of life. That’s what my writing is all about.”
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Holidays & Milestones
Raksha Bandhan
A RENEWAL OF HINDU FAMILY “TIES”—As our Holidays & Festivals columnist Stephanie Fenton explains today, Raksha Bandhan is one of the most beloved customs in Hindu communities around the world—an occasion for sisters and brothers to renew and strengthen their family “ties.”
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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 on the movie poster to read Ed McNulty’s review of Golda.
Faith & Film
Click on this image from the August 2023 issue of Visual Parables Journal to preview the reviews and discussion guides on movies including Oppenheimer, Barbie, Shortcomings, Tiger Within and many more.
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.
Here are some of Ed’s most recent free reviews and columns:
- GOLDA—Ed writes, “Reactions to this film have been mixed, though the majority of critics have praised Helen Mirren’s remarkable performance, enhanced by prosthetics and wig, as the title character.”
- JULS—”Director Marc Turtletaub’s film is a modest tale about a 79-year-old widower living in a small western Pennsylvania town. With a plot similar in some ways with E.T. or Close Encounters…, it is less a science fiction film than it is a parable of aging and loneliness.”
- THE LAW ACCORDING TO LYDIA POËT—Ed highly recommends this new Netflix series about Italy’s first female lawyer.
- OPPENHEIMER—”Christopher Nolan’s massive film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, shows how the scientist that presided over Trinity clearly understood” the power he had unleashed.
- TIGER WITHIN—”It is good to see that actor Ed Asner’s last film was one decrying ignorance and advocating love, forgiveness and friendship.”
- BARBIE—”I was thankful for the TIME magazine article that convinced me that I should watch Barbie despite my many reservations regarding it.”
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