Monthly Archives: September 2012

EAST OF EDEN (1955): Life without God

 “I can’t believe your fickleness – how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing a variant message!  It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God.” St Paul, Letter to the Galatians[i] Even […]

September 25, 2012 – 3:50 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, Men and Women, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on EAST OF EDEN (1955): Life without God

MARGARET (2011): Life without Law

Margaret isn’t a character in Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret (2011). Lisa is the name of the main character in this film. Margaret characterizes Lisa by contrasting the Margaret of Gerald Manley Hopkins’ poem “Spring and Fall” (1880) to the film’s Lisa. Lisa is a student at a posh New York private school. In her English class […]

September 18, 2012 – 4:16 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, Movies, Poetry, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments (1)

BILLY GRAHAM ON 9/11

President and Mrs. Bush, I want to say a personal word on behalf of many people. Thank you, Mr. President, for calling this Day of Prayer and Remembrance. We needed it at this time. We come together today to affirm our conviction that God cares for us, whatever our ethnic, religious or political background may […]

September 11, 2012 – 4:17 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Art, Current Events, History, Politics, Quotations, Talks, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, World Affairs | Comments Off on BILLY GRAHAM ON 9/11

HOSTAGE: STORYTELLER AND RESCUE

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious […]

September 7, 2012 – 5:32 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, History, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, World Affairs | Comments Off on HOSTAGE: STORYTELLER AND RESCUE