Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's the great thing about Fearless -- its unexpectedness. The most one might expect these days in a movie about a plane crash is Airport '93. The ; best we might hope for in a study of survivors is psychological faith healing. But Rafael Yglesias has written what amounts to a meditation on mortality. In the process, he has provided director Peter Weir with a route back to his best vein, that of Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave, those curiously creepy movies in which ineffable, quite insoluble mysteries slowly insinuate themselves into ordinary life. Together, the filmmakers have...
...ends, appropriately, with To the River, on which Mellencamp dives "down to the undertow" and declares, "Well, the deeper I drown/ Lord, the higher I'll go." The lyric, with its suggestion of cleansing renewal, demonstrates the essential optimism at the core of Mellencamp's dire vision and his faith in the healing power of music. By venturing into the urban wilderness, Mellencamp has discovered the core of the American soul...
...issue of homosexuality in the Episcopal Church, which has 2.5 million members, has been fiercely debated, and in 1991 the faith officially ruled against allowing practicing homosexuals into the ministry...
Jews have always had a mass consciousness of perils around every corner. However, though anti-Semitism still exists, the traditional insecurity of Jews has not completely instilled itself in the younger members of the faith. Furthermore, if this insecurity alone were reason enough to prohibit intermarriage, it would imply that Judaism had no other positive characteristics with which to retain its believers. Jews would have no reason to adhere to their religion except that same insecurity...
Jewish parents must offer something else to their children--a real reason to like, accept, and preserve Judaism. Rabbis must direct their efforts to "selling" the faith; it may be that being born into it is not enough reason to become a believer in this free-market, "what have you done for me lately" world. Christianity does not have to go to the same lengths; its adherents are in the majority and need few incentives to stay there. Judaism must be strengthened, though not through intolerance, to face these odds...