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13 Movies: Christ and the Christian

27Jun

13 Movies—Christ and the Christian #7: World Trade Center

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Oliver Stone is a filmmaker who pours a lot of himself into his movies. Platoon described his experience as an infantry soldier in Vietnam. His persistent dance with drug addiction ended up on display in The Doors and his script for Midnight Express. His obsession with the paranoia and conspiracies is writ large in Snowden, […]

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1Jan

13 Movies—Christ and the Christian #3: Wake Up, Dead Man

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In my intro to this series, I posited that the Christian movie industry exists in part to give American Christians something they don’t often get from Hollywood: the dignity of being taken seriously. Movies like Shape of Water and Citizen Ruth paint churchgoing Christians as brainwashed hypocrites. They have ulterior motives for attending church, reading […]

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20Dec

13 Movies—Christ and the Christian #2: Children of Men

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The Holy Ghost haunts no one like the 20th century English writer. This robust literary tradition has given us J. R. R. Tolkein (Catholic), Evelyn Waugh (even more Catholic), Graham Greene (self-described “Catholic agnostic “), E. M. Forster (irreligious), Philip Pullman (atheist), and C. S. Lewis (atheist-turned-Anglican). Even among the nonbelievers, a streak of Christian […]

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26Oct

13 Movies—Christ and the Christian #1: Chariots of Fire

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I’m going to kick things off with Chariots of Fire. The reason is simple. This film not only clearly demonstrates a muscular, unwavering faith, it also stands at a crossroads in time. The years after 1981, when Chariots of Fire opened, have been referred to as the “post-Christian age.” Before 1981, Christianity in the U.S. […]

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