Reel Spirituality: watching films, discussing faith
After a short break over the festive season, we’re back, presenting one film a month during March, April and May. The series is based around a theme of topics leading up to the impending General Election – immigration, education and health.
This month: “IN AMERICA”
Starring: Samantha Morton and Paddy Considine
Director: Jim Sheridan (also directed My Left Foot, and In the Name of the Father)
Certificate: 15
Run time: 101 mins
Film synopsis: Johnny is a young Irish actor who decides to try for a new life in America. He moves with his wife, Sarah, and two young daughters to New York City and sets out to find work. Things don't work out quite as well as he hoped and he and Sarah are forced to take badly paid jobs to make ends meet...
Themes: What is immigration? Why do people move? When do life’s risks outweigh the chance to fulfill our dreams of a better life? What role do communities, cities and nations have in brokering the distance between dreams and reality? What would you give up to help someone else?
Date: Friday 4th March
Screening start time: 7pm prompt (arrive from 6:30 - bring drinks/snacks and cash if you want to pick up pizza from the corner pizzeria)
Where: Sacred Trinity, Chapel Street just outside of city centre - follow Market Street all the way down over the bridge and it’s on the corner
ADVANCE NOTICE
Films coming soon to Reel Spirituality:
Friday 1st April – Etre et Avoir
Friday 6th May – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
II - A night of electronica and creative media
Location: Cord (Basement), Northern Quarter, Manchester City Centre
Date: 2nd March.
Time: 8 -11
Hope you can make it!
Date: 2nd March.
Time: 8 -11
Hope you can make it!
Detox
Our next service is on 27th Feb and is called Detox. It'll be themed around detoxing our spiritual lives and also have strong links with lent. It's at Sacred Trinity and starts at 8pm - hope to see you there!
Save the Children
Apart from being simply the best new coffee hang out in town (it’s all fair-trade and organic, the basement is dead cosy, and it has free wifi and cool tunes), Suburb - http://www.suburbstore.com/about.html - has got an amazing and thought-provoking exhibition of photos at the moment.
Called “The happiest days of your life”, it’s been done by Ben Ingham for Save the Children, and explores what it means for children to play and enjoy treats in various countries across the world. To say that this image (taken in March 04 in Serbia) is an arresting one to greet you over a Saturday lunchtime coffee is today’s biggest understatement…
Profound. Moving. Deeply troubling.
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/exhibition/
by Ben Ingham
Called “The happiest days of your life”, it’s been done by Ben Ingham for Save the Children, and explores what it means for children to play and enjoy treats in various countries across the world. To say that this image (taken in March 04 in Serbia) is an arresting one to greet you over a Saturday lunchtime coffee is today’s biggest understatement…
Profound. Moving. Deeply troubling.
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/exhibition/
by Ben Ingham
world press photo awards 2004
The world press photo awards for 2004 have just been published on the BBC news website. Here is one of the winning entries, taken during an actual ambush! Click on the pic for the other winners.
Kick it out campaign
I was fascinated to read some of Gary Neville's (Man Utd and England footballer) comments this morning about the anti racist campaign - kick it out. He was suggesting, and rightly so I think, that Nike are using the kick-it-out campaign as a PR stunt. Thierry Henry and Ronaldino were interviewed about the campaign at the FIFA world player of the year awards and they both mentioned Nike on a number of occasions - hence raising the profile of Nike.
There are currently a number of Ads on TV featuring footballers that promote the kick it out campaign which are sponsered by Nike. Are Nike doing this out of the good of their hearts? Or is it a PR stunt....unfortunately I think the later. I guess i have a problem with this because this quite simply because of what Christ said in yesterdays lectionary reading in Mat 6: 1-4.
' Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before people, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honoured by people. I tell you the truth, they have recieved their reward in full. But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret.'
There are currently a number of Ads on TV featuring footballers that promote the kick it out campaign which are sponsered by Nike. Are Nike doing this out of the good of their hearts? Or is it a PR stunt....unfortunately I think the later. I guess i have a problem with this because this quite simply because of what Christ said in yesterdays lectionary reading in Mat 6: 1-4.
' Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before people, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honoured by people. I tell you the truth, they have recieved their reward in full. But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret.'
Lent: Detox for Life
Today is the start of lent, a penitential season before Easter. I've been thinking about how to make my lenten experience a holistic one; a balance of discipline to the mind, body and spirit. So this year I'm not gonna give up anything for lent, but I am going to try to be more disciplined in all that I do. I'll try to be more disciplined in my eating and drinking, I'll try to be disciplined between my family and work life, I'll try to read more, I'll try to pray more.
I know I'm setting myself up for a fall by blogging about this, but perhaps that will help me. So let me also encourage you to think about lent in a holistic way...don't just give up chocolate, and end up eating loads of fruit pastels and wine gums, don't give up beer and hence take up wine! view the whole of lent in a holistic way and value the process of detox.
Christianity is a faith of feasting and fasting, in the west we seem to be very good at the feasting but very poor at the fasting.
I know I'm setting myself up for a fall by blogging about this, but perhaps that will help me. So let me also encourage you to think about lent in a holistic way...don't just give up chocolate, and end up eating loads of fruit pastels and wine gums, don't give up beer and hence take up wine! view the whole of lent in a holistic way and value the process of detox.
Christianity is a faith of feasting and fasting, in the west we seem to be very good at the feasting but very poor at the fasting.
Trev's free download
Trev was living in Manchester last year and part of the Sanctus1 community, he has now moved to Oxford where he is producing some great music. Follow this link to download his latest track, an acoustic version of 'May God Love You'
www.trevwilliams.co.uk
www.trevwilliams.co.uk
Challenge Manchester
This is a way of very practically helping out the City - this year's theme is "cleaning up" - including litter, whole communities and behaviour too apparently!
http://www.challengemanchester.co.uk/news.asp - for more details as to how you can get involved.
http://www.challengemanchester.co.uk/news.asp - for more details as to how you can get involved.
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