Understanding Spirituality and Culture through Christ
A.W.Auden said, "only a suffering God is an interesting God." Suffering is a universal fact. Singleton is a genius in teasing out this aspect of God's pathos in his sculptures, showing solidarity with human suffering. Even as the world may try to overwhelm us with suffering, in Christ our suffering is taken up on God, and we are affirmed as the beloved of God.
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Ironically, the core of Princess Bride is not the Princess or her suitors, but the love between a grand father and his grand son who open and close the movie. What stuck me this time was how the relationship between the grandfather and the grandson was en example of the relationship between God and human beings - depicting our strategies of distraction and resistance, and, God's relentless pursuit.
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