Join us on Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for movie discussion group. This month’s movie is called: Shawshank Redemption. This month’s movie group will be led by Rev. George Maddox.

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Join us on Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for movie discussion group. This month’s movie is called: Cloud Atlas

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Join us on Sunday, August 23, 2020 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for movie discussion group. This month’s movie is called: Avatar

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Join us on Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 8-9 pm ET/6-7 pm MT for movie discussion group. This month’s movie is Silver Linings Playbook starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

The central character, Pat, is recovering from a violent outburst triggered by the discovery of his wife’s infidelity and exacerbated by his previously-undiagnosed bipolar condition. In the midst of picking the pieces of his life back up, he begins a friendship with a young widow, Tiffany, who also has fragile mental health. Together, they learn how to confront their demons and relearn that the joys of life consist in more than just silver linings on an otherwise bleak existence.

A Canadian Jesuit movie review noted that the subtle identification of several Christian symbols (crosses worn by both Pat and Tiffany and a picture of Jesus in Pat’s parents’ home)  seemed to under gird this movie with themes of redemption and forgiveness.

The motive for this directorial choice is, I believe, to signify that Pat is being called to undergo a Christ-like role in the scheme that the family has cooked up. He is reluctant to go along with the plan, but soon realizes that he has to swallow his pride and do something that goes beyond merely his own interests. In the end, not only does he participate in the scheme, but he takes control of it: not control in the sense of having complete power over himself, as he desired in [an] earlier scene, but control in the sense that he becomes a support for others. In particular, though his presence and actions, he is able to affirm both Tiffany and his own father. From the midst of his own weakness he finds the strength to heal those around him.

Rev. Kelly Barber will be facilitating this month’s movie discussion group. Please join us Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 8-9 pm ET/6-7 pm MT for an engaging discussion about this journey from brokenness to wholeness.

Join us on June 28, 2020 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for movie discussion group. This month’s movie is called: Silver Linings Playbook

Here’s the play sheet for the movie: Click Here

Join us on Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 8-9 pm ET/6-7 pm MT for movie discussion group. This month’s movie is Silver Linings Playbook starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

The central character, Pat, is recovering from a violent outburst triggered by the discovery of his wife’s infidelity and exacerbated by his previously-undiagnosed bipolar condition. In the midst of picking the pieces of his life back up, he begins a friendship with a young widow, Tiffany, who also has fragile mental health. Together, they learn how to confront their demons and relearn that the joys of life consist in more than just silver linings on an otherwise bleak existence.

A Canadian Jesuit movie review noted that the subtle identification of several Christian symbols (crosses worn by both Pat and Tiffany and a picture of Jesus in Pat’s parents’ home)  seemed to under gird this movie with themes of redemption and forgiveness.

The motive for this directorial choice is, I believe, to signify that Pat is being called to undergo a Christ-like role in the scheme that the family has cooked up. He is reluctant to go along with the plan, but soon realizes that he has to swallow his pride and do something that goes beyond merely his own interests. In the end, not only does he participate in the scheme, but he takes control of it: not control in the sense of having complete power over himself, as he desired in [an] earlier scene, but control in the sense that he becomes a support for others. In particular, though his presence and actions, he is able to affirm both Tiffany and his own father. From the midst of his own weakness he finds the strength to heal those around him.

Rev. Kelly Barber will be facilitating this month’s movie discussion group. Please join us Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 8-9 pm ET/6-7 pm MT for an engaging discussion about this journey from brokenness to wholeness.

Join us on May 24, 2020 at 8pm ET/6 pm MT for movie discussion group. This month’s movie is called Chocolat, starring Johnny Depp.

A young mother and her daughter arrive in a new town. While the town is very conservative, Vianne (Binoche) is quite unconventional. Vianne opens a confectioner’s shop, and as the two newcomers begin to interact with the other villagers, change seems to be in the air, even for Vianne herself when Roux (Johnny Depp) enters her life and her daughter begins to chafe at their vagabond lifestyle.

Change and how we react to it, is a main theme in the movie. Here is a commentary on the film by Samantha Gray on the Spiritual Media Blog.

“…the movie’s theme is one of acceptance and forgiveness. It’s no coincidence that the movie is set in the Lenten season, a time of serious reflection and penitence in the Christian faith. Chocolat is all about the different ways that people confront change in their lives. For the mayor, the change comes in the form of his village which is moving away from the traditions and old ways of the previous decades. His unwillingness to meet that change is personified in his doomed relationship with his never shown wife who’s always mentioned as being “on vacation,” though everyone understands that’s she’s left the mayor. Vianne has to deal with her familiar role as an outcast, but she must also face that fact that her transitory lifestyle isn’t suitable for her daughter Anouk who wants some consistency in her life. The river gypsy Roux must face the prejudice against his lifestyle, whereby people universally view him as untrustworthy and criminal.

There are other major and minor characters in the film that confront similar changes in their lives, and they all meet them in their own way. The movie teaches us that we shouldn’t be closing ourselves off from others because of their differences. Instead, we should be opening our doors to other exactly because they live differently than we do; it’s about understanding that everyone has something to bring to the table that’s worthwhile, whether it’s the traveling chocolatier or the old-fashioned mayor.”

Ron Raitz will be facilitating this month’s movie discussion group. Please join us Sunday, May 24th at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for what will be a most meaningful discussion for all us in this time of change.

Here’s the playsheet for Chocolat: Click Here

Join us on May 24, 2020 at 8pm ET/6 pm MT for movie discussion group. This month’s movie is called Chocolat, starring Johnny Depp.

A young mother and her daughter arrive in a new town. While the town is very conservative, Vianne (Binoche) is quite unconventional. Vianne opens a confectioner’s shop, and as the two newcomers begin to interact with the other villagers, change seems to be in the air, even for Vianne herself when Roux (Johnny Depp) enters her life and her daughter begins to chafe at their vagabond lifestyle.

Change and how we react to it, is a main theme in the movie. Here is a commentary on the film by Samantha Gray on the Spiritual Media Blog.

“…the movie’s theme is one of acceptance and forgiveness. It’s no coincidence that the movie is set in the Lenten season, a time of serious reflection and penitence in the Christian faith. Chocolat is all about the different ways that people confront change in their lives. For the mayor, the change comes in the form of his village which is moving away from the traditions and old ways of the previous decades. His unwillingness to meet that change is personified in his doomed relationship with his never shown wife who’s always mentioned as being “on vacation,” though everyone understands that’s she’s left the mayor. Vianne has to deal with her familiar role as an outcast, but she must also face that fact that her transitory lifestyle isn’t suitable for her daughter Anouk who wants some consistency in her life. The river gypsy Roux must face the prejudice against his lifestyle, whereby people universally view him as untrustworthy and criminal.

There are other major and minor characters in the film that confront similar changes in their lives, and they all meet them in their own way. The movie teaches us that we shouldn’t be closing ourselves off from others because of their differences. Instead, we should be opening our doors to other exactly because they live differently than we do; it’s about understanding that everyone has something to bring to the table that’s worthwhile, whether it’s the traveling chocolatier or the old-fashioned mayor.”

Ron Raitz will be facilitating this month’s movie discussion group. Please join us Sunday, May 24th at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for what will be a most meaningful discussion for all us in this time of change.

Here’s the playsheet for Chocolat: Click Here

Join us on Sunday, April 26, 2020 from 8 -9 pm ET/6-7 pm MT for a discussion of the movie called Lucy.

Lucy is described as “an entertaining film with a philosophical point of view.”

Scarlett Johansson stars as Lucy, a young woman who experiences abduction then abuse that leads to a revealing of powers that start developing. As her powers grow the fear diminishes and we witness her own unique evolution. This evolution of expansion came by way of suffering. Lucy’s action-packed journey helps us to understand the greater possibilities of what it means to use one’s full capacities by the shedding of the physical, intellectual and perceptual limitations.

Rev. George Maddox will be facilitating this month’s movie discussion group.

You can watch this movie on Amazon Prime, YouTube, and Google Play. You can also watch the movie on www.onewhowakes.org with John Mark Stroud’s commentary to help you see the movie from Holy Spirit’s perspective.

Here’s a playsheet for the movie Lucy: Read it Here