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CC recommends: New on DVD
Christmas recommendations for Off the Map, Crash, Look at Me and more new DVDs—from film reviewers John Petrakis and Steve Vineberg. For recommendations in fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, theology and more, see the December 27 issue of the Century.
Century Marks
“We can’t completely separate politics and faith. They rise from the same wellspring: the concern about the distance between what is and what ought to be.”—Tim Kaine, a Catholic and a Democrat, who was elected governor of Virginia in November (Newsweek, November 21).
Open paths: 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16; Luke 1:26-38, 47-55
My favorite Christmas book is The Donkey’s Dream, which is about the journey Mary and Joseph made to Bethlehem. Meant for young children, Barbara Helen Berger’s story is a brilliant and subtle work of theology. Or perhaps antitheology, as it allows simple images to tell us more than words can convey about what the incarnation signifies.
Zealous hopes
We have many defenses against hearing the Christmas readings and taking them to heart.
Zealous hopes: Isaiah 9:2-7; Psalm 96; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20
We have many defenses against hearing the Christmas readings and taking them to heart.
