From Ukraine and Scotland to India and Detroit, Michigan—

Enjoy this multimedia reminder of our global connections!

Sharon Buttry and Ukraine—’The Myriad Roles of Women’

SHARON and her husband DAN BUTTRY are longtime friends of our publishing house. Check out Dan Buttry’s Amazon Author Page to learn more about their shared efforts on global peacemaking. This week, Sharon has completed an inspiring painting and online column about solidarity with the women of Ukraine. Please visit the Buttrys’ Global Peace Warrior website to see Sharon’s remarkable work.

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Rodney Curtis and Scotland—a union and a reunion

RODNEY CURTIS is one of our most popular authors, columnists and photographers over the past decade. Check out Rodney’s Amazon Author Page to learn more about his books. This week, he’s telling us—and showing us—about highlights of his family’s recent sojourn in Scotland for a union of families in a Scottish castle. Please enjoy this column—and gorgeous photos—at Rodney’s website.

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MSU Bias Busters and India—Let’s help stop anti-Sikh treatment in the U.S.

THIS WEEK, Michigan State University School of Journalism Bias Busters founder Joe Grimm writes about the timely need for all of us to help stop anti-Sikh bigotry that is cropping up in the U.S. this summer. This award-winning Bias Busters team of journalism students just recently published their 19th guidebook, 100 Questions and Answers about Sikh Americans. Please, read Joe Grimm’s column about recent troubling cases involving the treatment of Sikhs in the U.S.

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MSU Bias Busters and Detroit—How can our world move from ‘I’ to ‘We’?

YOU’LL DEFINITELY ENJOY this short video from Michigan State University School of Journalism’s Joe Grimm that shows the Rev. Robert Jones demonstrating the roots of the famous protest song We Shall Overcome. Jones leaves us with the question: How can our world move from “I” to “We”? This is a video you’ll want to share with friends this week.

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Suzy Farbman and Detroit—The Arts of the Cass Corridor

THE JEWISH NEWS has just published a profile of our columnist and author Suzy Farbman, focusing on her new book Detroit’s Cass Corridor and Beyond. “This is the story of the art world I knew,” Suzy tells journalist Suzanne Chessler. And, please, we also invite you to check out Suzy’s newest book on Amazon.

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Holidays & Festivals

Krishna Janmashtami

AND ON AUGUST 18—Across India and in Hindu communities worldwide, celebrations of Lord Krishna are planned—including, in some cities, those amazing human pyramids that are unique to this holiday.

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Book Birthdays

PUBLISHERS and AUTHORS CELEBRATE “BOOK BIRTHDAYS,” the anniversaries of our books’ debuts. Among our August book birthdays are several that continue to be popular with readers.

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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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august visual parables

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.

Here are some of Ed’s most recent free reviews and columns:

• MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS—”The story of a lowly British cleaning woman fulfilling her dream of owning a Christian Dior dress is a wonderful Cinderella story that will leave you feeling very good about the world and (most) of its inhabitants, even if a cynic might write it off as PR for the House of Dior.”
• WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING—”For those who have not read the novel, this highly romanticized Southern gothic tale is part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and part coming of age.”
• APPLES—”Christos Nikou’s film about a man suffering from loss of memory left me puzzled but intrigued. Thus I can’t join in the universal praise it has elicited.”
• RESURRECTION—”Writer/director Andrew Semans surely knows that one doesn’t have to bring in the supernatural or outer space monsters to create suspense and horror.”
• BULLET TRAIN—”There should be enough action with blood and gore, laced with considerable humor, to keep the attention of the almost ardent action fan.”
• VENGEANCE—Ed writes, “B.J. Novak’s film turned out very differently from what I had expected. Instead of one of those intense get-even movies that turn up so often on Tubi, this is a dark comedy/mystery that deals with relationships and the process of growing beyond our preconceived notions that lead us to look down on others.”
• EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE—”This unusual film combines the sci-fi multi-universe theme, popularized by Marvel films and the Matrix franchise, as well as embracing the genres of Kung Fu, Mother-Daughter, Husband-Wife estrangement.”
• BENEDICTION—”Five years after his film about Emily Dickson, A Quiet Passion, writer-director Terence Davies focuses upon another poet, one from his native England, Siegfried Sassoon.”

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