Two Handed Warriors

Silence

Martin Scorsese’s Silence, and Our Strange New Evangelical America, by Rebecca K. Reynolds

Martin Scorsese’s Silence, and Our Strange New Evangelical America, by Rebecca K. Reynolds

So many people my age feel abandoned by our own older faith heroes. In dire national circumstances, we have watched several of our evangelical heroes abandon the ideals they have taught us–urging us to make alliances with forces hostile to our faith. They have told us that this is loving. They have told us to do this for the good of the people. Is this the voice of God, or the voice of Ferreira?

2016 Movies and TV Reflect Americans’ Changing Relationship with Faith, by Alissa Wilkinson

Art provides a place for us to deal with our own fears and search for meaning. Entertainment lets us do this together. When we’re trying to figure out one another while also sorting out our own beliefs about right, wrong, belief, doubt, and the transcendent, it looks, from 2016, like we’ve decided the screen is a decent place to start.