October 14, 2011: The Way
Actor Martin Sheen says walking the Camino de Santiago is “a journey of the spirit as well as the flesh” and a search for ritual as well as transcendence.

Actor Martin Sheen says walking the Camino de Santiago is “a journey of the spirit as well as the flesh” and a search for ritual as well as transcendence.
Actress Vera Farmiga plays a woman who is “wrestling with the Lord and refusing to let him go until she understands and until he blesses her,” says writer and author Frederica Mathewes-Green.
Three expert movie-watchers discuss the moral, ethical, religious, and spiritual themes they saw in some of this year's Academy Award nominees.
Watch Shohreh Aghdashloo, Cyrus Nowrasteh, and Steve McEveety talk about their new film, "The Stoning of Soraya M."
"My life has been transformed. I don't know why God has blessed me and graced me the way God has. In my own mind, I don't deserve it."
There's been a growing wave of religious controversy since Dan Brown's novel, THE DA VINCI CODE, was first released in 2003. Many Christians were deeply offended by the story's portrayal of Jesus, Christian doctrine and church history. Now, the highly anticipated movie version is intensifying those debates.
Two thousand years after Jesus' death, Mel Gibson's controversial movie, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, set off a wave of new conversations about who was responsible for Jesus' death -- and why it matters today. For many Christians, that debate is history, but for most Jews, it still arouses deep fears of persecution.
If you are interested in the ethical problems raised by advances in science, then you are likely to find Stephen Spielberg's new movie, MINORITY REPORT, a bit disappointing.
Following the Columbine High shootings, the film industry wrestled with whether the violence it presents on the screen encourages violent behavior in real life. Father Ellwood Kieser does think Hollywood bears some responsibility for society's violence. His calling, he says, is nothing less than to persuade America's entertainment industry to celebrate human values as well as money.

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