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Five Films for People of Faith
Lately, Hollywood has given Christians some great stuff worth watching. I recommend the five films listed below, all of which are based on true stories. A Hidden Life – My favorite book ending in the Western canon of literature is the close of George Eliot’s Middlemarch: Dorothea’s full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been,…
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Three Change-Your-Life True-Story Flicks
Recently in a class I teach we focused on women in church history. In addition to reading accounts of women martyrs, students watched the film “Iron Jawed Angels.” Most people don’t realize that Alice Paul, a key leader in the fight for suffrage in the USA, was a Quaker. Driven by her conviction that God made man and woman equal, Alice Paul worked tirelessly for a constitutional amendment giving women the vote. While the film does not emphasize her faith, it does mention it. Afterward I received this message from one of my students: “All was well until completing the reading for class today and seeing ‘Iron Jawed Angels’… The movie had…
