There are few films that deftly and profoundly expose the shallowness of our empathy, our lack of willingness to inhabit the burdens of others. One such film is Hotel Rwanda, a story set against the backdrop of the unthinkable atrocity of the Rwandan genocide. In the short span of three months, nearly one million people…
Dynamic stories often employ narrative shifts, the point in the plot where the story or storytelling changes focus. Perhaps the story is told from a different perceptive or the action changes location. While it might seem like narrative shifts can cause confusion with their sudden movement, in the hands of skilled storytellers, they actually serve…
We can either expose the sins others to cover ourselves or share in the exposure of others trusting the Lord’s covering is sufficient for us both.
Noah steps out of the ark after 150 days enduring the violent onslaught of the waters and waiting for the waters to retreat from the ground. When his feet hit the dry land, the narrative is dense with anticipation of Lamech’s hope—that relief from sin and all its tragic consequences has indeed come, that the…
We are really bad at waiting. We see our disdain for and discomfort in waiting really clearly in our kids. As adults, we simply mask our impatience in more creative, socially-acceptable ways. Recently, I have made the mistake of telling Whittaker that we are going to an Atlanta United match for our annual Boys Weekend.…
In our generation, there is no more enduring and scarring mental monument to the utter and absolute destruction of flooding than Hurricane Katrina. Katrina made landfall somewhere east of New Orleans in August of 2005, and despite its category 3 rating, its rains overpowered the city’s levees and left New Orleans under water. Because most…