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Earlier Graham feature films were generally fictional sagas of personal conversion, complete with an inserted sermon delivered by Billy. By contrast, The Hiding Place is the true story of two pious Dutch Protestant spinsters who hid Jews from the Nazis in their Haarlem home during World War II, and were imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp as a result. The film is drawn from a fast-selling 1971 autobiography of the same title by Corrie ten Boom, one of the sisters. Now 83, she is currently on a speaking tour of the U.S. and Canada...
EVERY SUNDAY (there are no calendars, but he manages to keep track) Marshfield writes a sermon...
...able to bless his congregation, in a sermon on a text from Corinthians, "we are of all men most miserable." It is a triumph of faith, in a godless time, from the unlikeliest of believers...
...word games, the tired ecclesiastical jokes, the shallow plot, are all consistent with a vision of Marshfield as a frustrated author given his big chance, but they are unnecessary. Marshfield's anomalous faith gives him a depth, and a dignity, that makes the rest extraneous and distracting. The mediocre sermon early in the month is realistically valid, but artistically wrong. As something written to a preacher in a desert motel, it is revealing and effective. But it is mediocre writing nonetheless, and that is not Marshfield's name on the dust jacket...
Aired in 45 major cities to an audience of 2.5 million, the Hour is rare among TV services in its appeal to the unchurched. Instead of theology, a Schuller sermon is packed with success stories, accented by alliterative slogans and an "I'm O.K.-you're O.K." philosophy. He calls it "possibility thinking" to distinguish it a bit from the "positive thinking" of his friend the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale. Good Christians, Schuller intones, are "act-chievers" who "try-umph" over pessimism. "I don't trust skeptics, no matter how brilliant their words," he says. "I trust...