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My 2020 Film, Writing and Reading Challenge: Travelling Around the World Through Film, Blog and Book The Particulars: International Film Challenge I’ll be using the full list of Oscar submissions as my base (available here: https://www.screendaily.com/…/full-list…/5133396.article) Beginning with a Country’s submission from this list, I’ll be doing research on films and Directors etc. from thatContinue reading “My 2020 Film, Writing and Reading Challenge”

“They say that miracles happen out here.” There is a beautiful moment in The Way, a 2010 film Directed by Emilio Estevez, where Tom (Martin Sheen), following the loss of his wife and son, makes a decision to complete a journey his late son only had a chance to start. Setting off with no training, fewContinue reading “Liturgy and Film: The Way and the Peace of Advent”

To help celebrate Christmas this year I chose a grouping of films to watch over the Advent season (6 in total), with each film coinciding with one of the virtues that Advent celebrates through the lighting of the candles. The first Sunday is hope, and the second Sunday is Faith. This past Sunday, for whichContinue reading “Liturgy and Film- If Beale Street Could Talk and the Joy of Advent”

For my personalized Liturgy Watchlist I chose a selection of films that I feel reflect the different virtues of the Advent season. Each lit candle symbolizes one of the virtues represented over the four Sundays of Advent, culminating in the Christ Candle as the true and full expression of these virtues embodied in the ChristmasContinue reading “Liturgy and Film- Hugo and the Faith of Advent”

I was inspired by a recent podcast episode from Think Christian to think about film in a Liturgical sense. Growing into a liturgical environment in my later and most recent years, Liturgy is something I have grown to challenge and cherish as it has helped to inform my relationship with God. This episode about faith,Continue reading “Liturgy Wathlist: Celebrating Advent through Film”

Matthew 3:1-12 English Standard Version (ESV) John the Baptist Prepares the Way 3 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”[a] 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare[b] the way of theContinue reading “ADVENT REFLECTION: MATTHEW 3:1-12”

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Christmas is often seen as a time to stop, reflect and reorient ourselves from a life centered towards ourselves to a life centered on God and others. A breaking through of our routine. Liturgically speaking, it is the start of the Christian calendar, the beginning of that long road to being shaped towardsContinue reading “Thanksgiving And Virtuous Living”

Sadly, it has been a while since I’ve visited this space. With this being the end of a decade, I have been dedicating most of my time to working through a lengthy watchlist of films from the last decade, with the hope of eventually putting together a definitive top list of the decade this comingContinue reading “A Summer of Recondition and Renewal: Discovering The Difference Between Believing and Living”

When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 40 The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. (Luke 2:39-40) My word for this year (see my ROSEBUD resolution challenge in this space) is Perspective. ThinkingContinue reading “From Advent to Christmas to Epiphany to the Time After- Learning to Become a Disciple of Jesus in the Ordinary of the Everyday”

“It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.”  ― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk Poetry. Poetry in motion. This is how I would describe If Beale Street Could Talk One could argue that the cries for acceptance, healing and freedom run deeper in Jenkin’s previous, Oscar winning Moonlight, but the dance of these sameContinue reading “If Beale Street Could Talk and The Power of a Human Moment”