FAITH IN CULTURE
articles on the challenges and opportunities for faith in modern culture
This Month's Article
Slow Cinema
When did you last see a movie that reduced your pulse to the rhythm of creation? How about this for a film pitch: A bus driver dreams up poetry during his day job. At night he takes the dog out for a walk and stops for a pint.
Repeat daily. End of story.
Yes, me neither.
So, it took some effort to commit to watching the movie Paterson, following its release in May 2017
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Spiritual Footprints
Spiritual Footprints
How big is your spiritual footprint?
‘Go lightly down your darkened way’ sings Bono in a Salman Rushdie penned lyric, and it would seem this is now fashionable as people contemplate how big their carbon footprint is. The idea of the light footprint may have originated at the United Nations where it is deemed vital in nation-building lest the organisation be labelled neo-colonial, but it has now been adopted as the unofficial motif of green living. In the process, the pernicious effects of individualism have been challenged. For too long, in celebrating the role of the individual in the modern world
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