MSU’s Bias Busters project encourages conversations with our millions of veterans.

AND BIAS BUSTERS FOUNDER Joe Grimm writes, for the Memorial Day weekend, about how to start such conversations.

THEN—HOLIDAYS columnist Stephanie Fenton explains more about the history and customs surrounding Memorial Day.

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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And good news from our writers—Suzy Farbman:

On turning 80 and considering the potential that lies ahead

 

AND WE ALL ARE CHEERING: “Happy birthday Suzy!” This week, our GodSigns columnist and life-long journalist Suzy Farbman sums up the guiding wisdom that she cherishes as she steps into her 80s.

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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 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 OLD OAK—Ed writes, “Films like Ken Loach’s The Old Oak are why I am still so passionate about well-crafted films, especially those dealing with the down and out, those oppressed by the powerful.“
• THE FALL GUY—”Whatever genre you think director David Leitch’s new film belongs in … it ranks at the top of that genre.”
• DOGMAN—Ed is more ambivalent about Luc Bresson’s weird new film—and even warns about the level of violence.
• THE ASCENT—As he likes to do, Ed reaches back across the decades to recommend this 1977 film from Ukraine.
• SUZUME—”Director/writer Makoto Shinkai and his team of animators provide a mythological interpretation for the hundreds of earthquake tremors Japan suffers each year.”
• WE GROWN NOW—”Writer/director Minhai Baig’s ‘must-see’ film is an elegiac story of an imaginative boy facing the end of a way of life. It makes me believe all the more that the best of films are being made by independent filmmakers.”
• CIVIL WAR—Ed writes, “Many angry citizens, who are upset over seemingly intractable political disputes, have talked about civil war breaking out in our nation—and would do well to watch writer/director Alex Garland’s film.”
• DUNE, PART 2—Ed urges us to continue with this remarkable series. “The incredible production values are matched by the A-list actors.”

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