Paradise Now

I watched the movie Paradise Now last night. It had been sitting around my house for the past two weeks because I haven't been up to watching anything that intense until last night. I just have to say it was an amazing, well made movie. If you care at all about what is going on in the world today, you must watch this movie. It is the story of two Palestinian friends who basically get called up (to use baseball terminology) as suicide bombers. Although you only see things from their side, I thought the movie was balanced as you followed these two men around the strange place they call home.

I continue to hope that Americans will begin to really look into what the modern nation of Israel has become and gain a better view of it than the one they have from a poor reading of the Old Testament. Israel, our ally, continues to this day to commit major attrocities (just read the papers). Watch this movie. Or read Naim Ateek's book, Justice, and only Justice to see Palestinian liberation theology in action and gain a hopeful attitude about how things can yet be worked out in one small part of the turbulent Middle East.

Peace,
Matt

Just Read: Leslie Newbigin's Foolishness to the Greeks. I honestly think it is a much more important book than The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. Newbigin is more direct in this book, and very challenging. A must read.