Word: confessional
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Two days later, I happened to meet Frederick Buechner. Buechner, now 74 years old, is one of the few Presbyterian ministers in the world who has a cult following. He is an author of luminous novels, memoirs, sermons. I have long been a member of the Buechner cult. When we...
It was the phrase "great laughter" that captivated Buechner. It now fascinated me. Why, at such a moment, would there be "great laughter"? Relief? Some exuberance released by the act of confession? Ecstatic joy? Can you draw a direct causal line from tears, through confession, to great laughter? Laughter about...
A confession is in order: there are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector. I squirm through these masterpieces of emotional pornography, jotting...
Another confession: liberal movie critics tend to be critical of liberal movies. We're more susceptible to the red meat of an old Clint Eastwood actioner than to the good intentions of a warm-'n'-fuzzy plea for brother- and sisterhood. It's not the politics that rankles so much...
No one ever called me a prude, but the window thing is a little creepy. You feel like you're at a school for Peeping Toms, and you find yourself wishing there were a confession window, or maybe a flea dip, at the end of the chute. If they at...