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Baker is back in the chaplain's sleeping room, a monk's cell with a TV on gimbals. He left the Southern Baptists but eventually found God again in Methodism, which he felt downplayed sin in favor of God's grace. In Baker's theology, illness and death are not divine punishment on one woman for her weaknesses but rather a symptom of our collective distance from God. Our first disobedience let chaos into our world: chaos can be human sin; it can be a genetic predisposition for cancer. We are all shattered vessels, and death must come...
...complete it. Instead it's releasing a version that Norton helped edit. Over at New Line, president Mike De Luca says he gave Kaye three chances to finish the film, spent an extra $1.5 million and endured meetings to which Kaye brought a Tibetan lama, a rabbi and a monk. Kaye's latest salvo: he wants the credits to say the film was directed by Humpty Dumpty...
...religion. There are no sermons or bulletins choked with announcements and committee assignments, just the gentle rocking of the chants. Participating at services is not required, and if those on retreat spend their entire time sequestered behind closed doors or meditatively walking the often expansive acreage, the monks bless that too. "People come here and think they're supposed to sit in chapel all the time," says Brother John Thomas, a monk at Holy Cross Monastery in New York's Hudson River valley. "You're trying too hard; that's spiritual constipation. God is bigger than that." For people...
...made a slow creep back to religion, first as a Unitarian and then as a Methodist. But still her soul kept its distance. Then last year her church went on a retreat at the Abbey of the Genesee, a monastery in upstate New York. During a discussion, when a monk (and a recovering alcoholic), repeatedly said, "God loves you," Nolan started sobbing. In a message she later posted on the Internet, she explained that "the God I met as a child was judgmental, condemning, did horrible things to his own son." But somehow here, in the most Catholic of places...
...approved and then unapproved. A few days later, without explanation, it was approved again. So now Jesus is in--but he's running late. At 11 p.m. the man checking names at the door of the Village Vanguard, the New York City jazz club where Miles played, where Monk played, says Jesus hasn't arrived but his plane "is touching down even as we speak." As a result, Jesus' set has been pushed back from 11:30 to 'round midnight. The club is half empty. Only the true believers, only the people whose jazz souls need saving, are going...