Last night, I had to trek up to the cities for a get-together with people from the film/screenwriting community, and on my way up, I listened to the latest podcast of MPR’s Speaking of Faith with Thich Nhat Hanh, a well-known and revered Zen master and poet who did an unusual thing during the Vietnam […]
Good and Evil
Question for today. If you believe in God, do you believe He sends us good and evil? We often credit Him with giving us good things–health, wealth, and love. But we hesitate, it seems to me, to say He sends us bad things. Why is that? While you’re thinking, here’s a verse to ruminate on. […]
Holding Up a Mirror to Ourselves
Can I just say that Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games deals with so much more than a futuristic nation’s sadistic starvation game in which 24 youths are chosen from twelve districts (one girl, one boy) to compete in the Capitol–until death…on TV? Sounds gruesome, doesn’t it? It is. But, sadly, it’s an excellent portrayal of […]