Gary and Peter Kapsner Discuss how anxiety is a barrier to spiritual growth as seen in the part of the Christmas story we never tell.
Mary and Zechariah: Anxiety vs. Faith in the Christmas Story
It’s a Wonderful Life and the Courage to Live (and Create Art) Idealistically
Few of us will ever get an invitation to an early screening of our life’s work like George did. Yet we will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. To be a two handed warrior is to live for that heavenly red carpet affair, not its pale imitation at the Kodak theatre. Part 3 of our annual repost of one of the most read THW series.
Capra’s Tale of a Depressed Idealist: It’s a Wonderful Life, Part 2, by Gary David Stratton, PhD
Part 2 of annual repost of most read series in THW’s brief history:
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) provides a wonderful expression of the complicated interplay between modern Physicalism and Idealism as life-interpreting stories in the life of its main character, George Bailey.
It’s a Wonderful Life: Frank Capra’s Worldview Masterpiece
Like George Bailey and Ricky Gervais, we all eventually find ourselves wondering: Is there a reward for knowing and trying to do the right thing? (Either in heaven or on earth) Or, is it all a waste of time?
Christmas Angel (2012) Favorite Christmas Movies for 2012
A young girl’s wish leads to mysterious abandoned house and a maybe a Christmas angel (played by Touched by an Angel star, Della Reese.) Act One graduate Andrea Gyertson Nasfell’s second Christmas movie, after Christmas with a Capital C (2011).
Children of Men (2006) ‘Miracle Cease Fire’ video clip: 30 Christmas Movies
Alfonso Cuarón’s masterpiece confronts us with a tale of a miraculously pregnant unwed mother and her reluctant protector set amidst the most horrific violence an empire can throw at them: in short, a stark retelling of the Christmas story.
Joyeux Noel (2006) A Remarkable True Story of Faith – 30 #ChristmasMovies
Joyeux Noel (French for ‘Merry Christmas.’ U.S. release in 2006) The remarkable true story of the ‘Christmas Truce’ of 1914. Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish fraternize and get to know the men who live on the opposite side of a brutal war, in what became a true lesson of humanity.
Christmas Vacation (1989) ‘Griswold Family Christmas Tree’ Clip- 30 Top #ChristmasMovies
Can’t get enough of Chevy Chase on Community? This is the movie for you. The Griswold family’s plan for a big Christmas turns out to be “nuts’?
Prancer (1989) 30 Favorite Christmas Movies for 2012
An injured reindeer opens the door to redemption for the grieving daughter of an impoverished farmer, but could he really be one of Santa’s own?
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) Zany ‘Non-Trailer’ – 30 Christmas Movies
Samuel Goldwyn’s romantic comedy about a Bishop’s fundraising prayer that nets a lot more than cash. Cary Grant plays the angel with more on his mind than money.
Elf (2003) ‘The Snowball Fight’ – 30 Favorite Christmas Movies
Perhaps Will Ferrell’s best movie. The story of Buddy the Elf is an irresistible recasting of the Santa story. Zooey Deschanel‘s sterling role doesn’t hurt one bit.
Whitney Houston sings to Denzel Washington in 1996 Update of Christmas Movie ‘The Preacher’s Wife’
A Bishop’s fundraising prayer is answered by an angel with more than money on his mind. Featuring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston in remake of Samuel Goldwyn’s romantic comedy The Bishop’s Wife (1947).