More than mere entertainment, films can provide us space to pause and meditate on our purpose and place in life. Perhaps the appeal of good films is that they help us make sense of the world even while they provide a temporary escape from it. We can anticipate finding God's presence in the movies we watch for a truthful telling of the human drama can voice the divine as well. Our world, after all, is God's world.

 

October 3, 7 p.m.

Paper Clips (2004) is a moving documentary feature film, which is inspiring, educational, and thought provoking. Film critic Dan Berman writes, “It began as a lesson about prejudice…what happened next was a miracle.” Paper Clips takes us on a journey to Whitwell Elementary School in Tennessee where a group of elementary students developed a truly celebrated and thoughtful project. These brilliant students came up with a way to remember the fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, grandfathers and grandmothers who were slaughtered in concentration camps in Nazi Germany well over a half-century before. What started out as a goal to receive six million paper clips (one for each victim), actually turned into an outpouring of support with well over twenty-seven million of them. Please join us to view this stirring film!

We meet in Webb Chapel to watch the movie, and then gather in the Parlor for refreshments and a film discussion.
 

October 3, 7pm
Past viewings:

 

The Gods Must Be Crazy*    Cry, the Beloved Country 

  

* The Straight Story   *Children of Heaven

 

 * Osama   *  Door to Door      *  Romero     *  The Bicycle Thief         

 

Smoke Signals      *      Millions      *    The Pursuit of Happyness       

 

 * The Nativity Story    *     Whale Rider        *    Amazing Grace 

 

* Water            Luther    *