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SILENCE

January 6, 2017 By Leave a Comment

SILENCE

Academics are taught to write with a dispassionate yet highly detailed style for their scholarly treatises.  That is the approach that Martin Scorsese has taken with SILENCE, his philosophically dense and immaculately rendered film of Shusaku Endo’s book of the same name. The result is a maddening film more to be admired than enjoyed as… Read More »

Tagged With: 17th century, book to screen, Christian missionaries, conversion, Japan, Jesuits, martydom, prosecution

Hubert Sauper Explores the Irony of WE COME AS FRIENDS

August 26, 2015 By 1 Comment

Hubert Sauper Explores the Irony of WE COME AS FRIENDS

I am rarely left speechless when conducting an interview, but on August 19, 2015, when WE COME AS FRIEND’s Hubert Sauper told me about how a group of Christian missionaries from Texas had convinced their Sudanese converts about the truth of the resurrection, I all but collapsed in bemused disbelief. It’s towards the end of… Read More »

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