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When I was in Spain and Germany, it was bolstering to my convictions when I saw US politics from across the ocean. Most with whom I spoke fear the US greatly. Others find it is a sign of a lack of morality in the American …
It is interesting that the two Signis Prizes at the San Sebastian Film Festival are both awarded to stories about children who are defenseless in a hostile world. In both films the best in people is evoked by the children. The Grand Prize was awarded …
Blogging is tough because connecting from my laptop is not easy here in San Sebastian. also, watching so many films keeps me running from one theatre to another. I’m at the airport on the way to Dusseldorf and thankful that there is wireless here and …
Am serving on the Signis Jury at the San Sebastian Film Festival and watching lots and lots of films. The week started off slowly with not much that interested me. Woody Allen did his world premiere of Melinda and Melinda. yawn. Just now i saw …
It’s 4:15 AM in Apeldoorn, Holland and I can’t sleep due to my jetlag. I’ll get up soon and go swim before starting my meetings here. I went quickly to two websites to collect some info and was struck at the difference viaually and programmatically …
These days at the 4th Conference on Media, Religion and Culture have been full of exciting people from all over the world. Every minute of the day is full of either interesting workshops, papers and panels–or coffee/beers with friends and new acquaintances doing interesting research …
Am on my way to the 4th International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture. Louiseville, Kentucky is the site. The occasion is also the launch of a book co-edited by Peter Horsfield, Mary Hess and myself, “Belief In Media.” The page for this book is …
Francesca Talenti made a one-minute video in 2000 that has a poem by Emily Dickinson, “I Reason,” as the audio. It is a haunting combination of intellectual clarity and transcendental searching. It provokes mediating about 9/11 with implied questions, deep questions. You can see this …
am back, but will probably be absent more than present here for the rest of the year. Just to say that I was inspired yesterday, listening to “Democracy Now” with Amy Goodman. But more on that some other time. Today on our community radio station, …