The battle rages over whether Darren Aronofsky’s popular new film is faithful to the Bible. If nothing else, it’s faithful to the long tradition of interpreting bible stories in a particular historical context.
Son of God and Noah don’t just represent two different ways to read Scripture, two different ways to make films, and two different marketing demographics. They also represent two sharply different ways to believe, to be in the world.
We first meet Kamala at her local Jersey City deli, where she stares at a BLT sandwich longingly, whispering to herself, “Delicious, delicious, infidel meat….”
“If you are going to be a Catholic—or any type of Christian—you are going to have to get rid of your guns, withdraw from any military, have nothing to do with weapons manufacturing or killing, and practice nonviolence at every level.”
On Sunday morning I went to a church service for the first time in decades. I was there as a community member to support Pastor Seth Pickens of Zion Hill Baptist church in South Los Angeles. A few days before, I’d received an urgent
