The Gospel of Luke (2015)
Luke’s version of the life of Christ is dramatized with actors speaking in Aramaic while a noted celebrity reads the text in the NIV–no additions to the text.
Pray Away (2021)
A documentary describing the afterlife since the demise of the anti-gay Exodus International, 5 of the 6 subjects now out of the closet and living enriched lives, the film ending with the beautiful wedding of one.
Joe Bell (2020)
A small-town man sets forth from Oregon to walk to NYC to fight on behalf of his gay son against LGBTQ bullying.
Nightjohn (1996)
Before the Civil War a Black man who voluntarily returns to slavery to teach slaves how to read finds an eager pupil in a young girl.
Uncle Frank (2020)
Southerner Frank, estranged from his father Frank over his homosexuality, returns with his niece & lover for the old man’s funeral.
Mangrove (2020)
The racism of the London police trigger an uprising of London’s West Indian Community when the cops continually raid their beloved Mangrove Cafe.
Interview with Ryan Daniel Dobson, Director of HOSEA
Conducted on September 25, 2020 After exchanging greetings, I began our conversation by my giving a background on Visual Parables and explaining my approach to film and VP’s interfaith readership. As with my other transcriptions, there are short gaps, marked by a series of periods, where my poor hearing prevented me from understanding a word, …
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Spiritual Truth in the Age of Fake News: A Book Review
Paper back, 185 pp. Resource Publications, Eugene, OR. Episcopal priest Elizabeth Geitz has written a helpful book that I will be placing beside my long-cherished copy of Jim Hill and Rand Cheadle’s excellent 1996 THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO: Uses and Abuses of Holy Scripture. Though not as highly decorated (4 illustrations as compared to …
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Hamilton (2020)
The story of Alexander Hamilton from his humble rise & friendship with Aaron Burr & several Founding Fathers to his close relationship with George Washington, his marriage, & dual with Burr.
Adu (2020)
Three stories set in Africa are entertwined–a 6-year-old Cameroon refugee boy flees from poachers who have killed his mother; a border guard struggles with his conscience when a colleague causes the death of a refugee; an animal rights advocate struggles with his temper and his druggie daughter.