Lost Boys of Sudan
Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.
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This documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky details the murder trial of Delbert Ward. Delbert was a member of a family of four elderly brothers, working as semi-literate farmers and living together in isolation from the rest of society until William's death. A police investigation and Medical Examiner's autopsy suggested that Bill may not have died from natural causes and Delbert was arrested on charges of Second-Degree Murder. Under questioning by police, Delbert appears to have waived his rights and signed a confession, but this film suggests that he may not have been competent to do so. The film explores possible motives for the crime, from 'mercy-killing' (Bill was ill at the time) to progressively more bizarre hypotheses. It also shows how residents of the rural community of Munnsville, NY rallied to the support of one of their own residents (previously considered a social outcast), against what they felt were intrusive 'big-city' police and District Attorney tactics.
SYNOPSIS: Devil’s Playground is a documentary film by Lucy Walker which explores the Amish adolescent rite of passage called "rumspringa" (pronounced ROOM-shpring-a). Upon their sixteenth birthdays, Amish youth, both male and female, are released from Amish restrictions and can explore secular life the devil’s playground outside of the Amish community. The period may last from a few months to several years. By experiencing the outside world, they work temptations out of their systems and prepare themselves for making their most important life decision: to reject the secular world and be baptized into the Amish church. The film weaves together interviews with several Amish youths who, to varying degrees, embrace popular youth culture, including smoking, drinking and drug use. Some return to their Amish tradition and are baptized. Others decide against returning, and still others waffle between the options.
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The second part of this lovely movie gets into how Mary handles all the drama surrounding her pregnancy. Which she has kept quiet to all except for some close friends. Through some comedic instances of this unholy event Christian ideals are explored. On the one hand there is the black and white truth of the Bible and its message in Christian doctrine represented by Pastor Skip and Hilary Faye(played by Mandy Moore). On the other there is the gray area of Christianity that humans may never be able to live up to represented by Mary, Roland(played by Macaulay Culkin) Cassandra and finally the gay boyfriend, Dean. That is part 2.
When we left our hero (a pretty desperate hero, at
that), the Christian author and Oxford professor C.S.
Lewis---
Lewis's nominal ("technical") wife, Joy, whom he
married so that she could stay in England, had
declared that they were not friends and that he spent
his time insulating himself from any battle that he
might lose. With that, she stormed away from him.
Will Joy be back?
Is she right? Is it possible that a man who spends
his time asserting that pain is God's way of chiseling
us into great Christians in fact cannot stand to face
a fight he might lose?
Does this Christian author have anything to teach us?
Should he stick to magical children's books and forget
all the preaching?
Does the sun ever shine in Oxford?
from Renée
A few questions to think about in advance: (from Renee)
In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Huron Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls in love with the Huron chief's beautiful daughter underneath the imposing and magnificent mountains. Dread and death follows them upriver.
Biography of Martin Luther, the 16th-century priest who led the Christian Reformation and opened up new possibilities in exploration of faith. The film begins with his vow to become a monk, and continues through his struggles to reconcile his desire for sanctification with his increasing abhorrence of the corruption and hypocrisy pervading the Church's hierarchy. He is ultimately charged with heresy and must confront the ruling cardinals and princes, urging them to make the Scriptures available to the common believer and lead the Church toward faith through justice and righteousness.
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