East Meets West: Consumerism and Asceticism

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The Reverend Gregory Jensen, an Orthodox Chaplain at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.ancientfaith.com/specials/acton_university_2013/east_meets_west_consumerism_and_asceticism

Why Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Matters

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The Reverend Johannes Jacobse, a Priest in the Antiochian Archdiocese of America

http://www.ancientfaith.com/specials/acton_university_2013/why_aleksander_solzhenitsyn_matters

Living in the Hingeway: A Reflection on Church and Culture

John Anderson

Preface: This is just a simple paper assigned after an introductory study of postmodernity and the current cultural shifts and a reading of “The Younger Evangelicals” by Robert Webber. This paper is not designed to be very formal containing a thesis and points. It is merely a personal reflection upon 5 cultural shifts that are opportunities for the Church, 5 cultural shifts that are a danger to the Church, and 5 ways I want to create ministry in this cultural context or how to carry out ministry. I believe the ways these younger evangelicals, who come from multiple Christian Traditions, have some solid ways of engaging the culture that we Orthodox Christians can implement and learn from as we wrestle with the context in which God has placed us. I hope this will be of benefit as you continue to wrestle and to struggle in these anxious times.

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Breaking the waves (1996) Кроз Таласе

Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good. Jan does return, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant in her sexual behavior, the more she comes to believe that her actions are guided by God and are helping Jan recover.

The Addiction (1995)

A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.

I found this movie to be such an accurate reflection of the way society functions. Vampirism could easily be seen as an economic transaction, in the way we feed off one another (i.e., we rob each other of blood/money, both of which are needed to survive). From a Marxist perspective, we can see that capitalism is economic and social barbarism.

For so many reasons, I cannot stop recommending this movie to everybody I know. Dialogue, cinematography, cast choice, lighting, set/setting, I cannot think of one factor that was left to chance. 

Stimulate your brain and see this movie NOW!

http://viooz.co/movies/7329-the-addiction-1995.html

Wings of Desire (1987) Небо изнад Берлина

Wenders' most purely romantic film is like poetry on celluloid, a celebration of the transient and fragile moments of being human: the warmth of a cup of coffee on a cold day, the embrace of a friend, the touch of a lover, the rapture of love. Opening with an angel's-eye view of Berlin in silvery black and white, it transforms into a gauzy colour world when Damiel "crosses over" by sheer will.

Peter Falk plays himself as a fallen angel with a special sensitivity for celestial visitors ("I can't see you, but I know you're there," he proclaims), and Otto Sander, whose smiling eyes brighten a face etched by eons of waiting and watching, is Damiel's partner.(subtitles) 

Germany · 1987 · Wim Wenders · 128minhttp://www.putlocker.com/file/7F1B66C91B26B3B1#

Ordet (1955) Реч

Old Morten Borgen fears God has abandoned him. Though he adores daughter-in-law Inger, he wishes she could restore her atheist husband Mikkel to the family's traditional beliefs; Anders his youngest wants to marry the daughter of a tailor who preaches a detestably puritanical Christianity; and his middle son Johannes now believes he's Jesus. How could things be worse? 

Far from the miserabilist litany this brief character summary might suggest, Dreyer's penultimate film is at once a wise, even witty exploration of pride, prejudice and pretensions to devout faith, and a heartrending hymn to the power of earthly passion and love. In contrast to the performances' intimate naturalism, the exquisite lighting, camera movements, sets and sounds all add to the sense of a super-reality, strangely familiar yet informed by mysterious forces of dark, almost primal emotion. Truly a towering achievement. (subtitles)

Denmark · 1955 · Carl Dreyer · 126min

BABETTES FEAST

Gabriel Axel’s celebrated Oscar-winning classic remains as charming, entertaining and mouth-watering as ever.

Adapted from a story by ‘Out of Africa’ author Isak Dinesen, it tells the story of a 19th Century religious community on Denmark’s remote and windswept coast. Into this austere environment comes Babette (Stephane Audren), a mysterious refugee from France’s civil war. 

When she mounts a French gourmet feast to mark the community’s anniversary, the local elders are scandalized. Just who is the strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure? Winner of the 1988 Oscar and 1989 BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film. (subtitles)

Denmark · 1988 · Gabriel Axel · 105min

The Love Song

nick cave

lecture: 

sept. 25th, atelierhaus der akademie der bildenden kunste


Ladies and gentlemen,

To be invited to come here and teach, to lecture, to impart what knowledge I have collected about poetry, about song writing has left me with a whole host of conflicting feelings. The strongest, most insistent of these concerns my late father who was English Literature teacher at the high school I attended back in Australia. I have very clear memories of being about twelve years old and sitting, as you are now, in a classroom or school hall, watching my father, who would be standing, up here, where I am standing, and thinking to myself, gloomily and miserably, for, in the main, I was a gloomy and miserable child, "It doesn't really matter what I do with my life, as long as I don't end up like my father." At forty years old i would appear that there is virtually no action I can take that does not draw me closer to him, that does not make me more like him. At forty years old I have become my father. And here I am. Teaching.

The Music, Art, and Life of Joni Mitchell Presented in Superb 2003 Documentary

I grew up with the music of Joni Mitchell often playing in the background of my home life. For me she blended with the voices of Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Carole King, and other sixties folkies; my mother—who played instruments like dulcimers and autoharps and could not sing or keep time—loved these women. I will confess, I did not. Familiarity did not breed contempt so much as indifference, and I mistook the softness of the music for cheap sentimentality. This careless listening lead me wrong, especially in the case of Mitchell, whose songwriting is perhaps as poetic, complex, and yet as honest as it gets.

Two Legends Together: A Young Bob Dylan Talks and Plays on The Studs Terkel Program, 1963

In the spring of 1963 Studs Terkel introduced Chicago radio listeners to an up-and-coming musician, not yet 22 years old, “a young folk poet who you might say looks like Huckleberry Finn, if he lived in the 20th century. His name is Bob Dylan.” (Listen to the interview below.)

Dylan had just finished recording the songs for his second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, when he traveled from New York to Chicago to play a gig at a little place partly owned by his manager, Albert Grossman, called The Bear Club. The next day he went to the WFMT studios for the hour-long appearance on The Studs Terkel Program. Most sources give the date of the interview as April 26, 1963, though Dylan scholar Michael Krogsgaard has given it as May 3.

NICK CAVE’S AMAZING LECTURE ON SONGWRITING: ‘THE SECRET LIFE OF THE LOVE SONG’

Nick Cave once suggested that, with The Boatman’s Call, he “was making a big heroic melodrama out of a bog-standard rejection”—the rejection, famously, being at the pink-and-chipped fingernails of PJ Harvey. Regardless, he succeeded in squeezing some fairly special songs out of that heartbreak, and some of them—“West Country Girl,” “Far From Me” and “People Ain’t No Good”—receive especially beautiful and intimate recitations in the course this 1999 lecture on songwriting, “The Secret Life of the Love Song,” written for the Vienna Poetry Festival and delivered on September 24th of that year:

To be invited to come here and teach, to lecture, to impart what knowledge I have collected about poetry, about song writing has left me with a whole host of conflicting feelings. The strongest, most insistent of these concerns my late father who was an English Literature teacher at the high school I attended back in Australia. I have very clear memories of being about twelve years old and sitting, as you are now, in a classroom or school hall, watching my father, who would be standing, up here, where I am standing, and thinking to myself, gloomily and miserably, for, in the main, I was a gloomy and miserable child, “It doesn´t really matter what I do with my life as long as I don´t end up like my father”. At forty years old it would appear that there is virtually no action I can take that does not draw me closer to him, that does not make me more like him. At forty years old I have become my father, and here I am, teaching.

The lecture itself, which provides no less than a truncated artistic autobiography along with Cave’s creative philosophy at the time, is very much a product of that occasionally rather humorless period of his work, but it’s still compelling stuff, and wonderfully read in Cave’s deeply sonorous, almost didgeridoo-esque speaking voice.

Лични одговор на поtребу ближњег

Једино животом по Јеванђељу можемо заслужити спасење, тј. Царство Небеско. Јеванђељским животом ( у љубави и благостању, уз пост и молитву, обасјани бројним врлинама...) долазимо до блаженог, божанског стање душе - смирења. Уз помоћ смирења стичемо спасоносно осећање покајања које нам помаже да очистимо душу. Чиста душа је идеалан дом Дарова Духа Светога тј. Самога Бога кога примамо кроз Свету Тајну Евхаристије. ''Обожење, тј. боголикост'' је врхунац хришћанског живота коме треба да тежимо.

Анино писмо

Драга моја мама,

Много пута сам се питала зашто је потребно да прођем кроз неке лоше ствари и да тек онда схватим да сам погрешила. Како пролази период проведен у Заједници, тако схватам да сте ми све више потребни, ви и ваша подршка да бих могла да издржим. Да ме не схватиш погрешно. И овде имам пуно љубави и разумевања, и овде сам осетила неке ствари по први пут у животу и то је оно што ме охрабрује и одржава. Овде сам спознала пут истине, да живим са Богом, захваљујући добрим људима који имају разумевања за мене, који ми дају подршку у сваком тренутку, који верују у моје боље сутра и који се боре за моја права у спољном свету. Неизмерно сам им захвална за руку спаса коју су ми пружили.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/curriculum-planning/teaching-methods/3680.html

An Interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn

In the course of his research for "Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile" Joseph Pearce traveled to Moscow to interview the Nobel Prize winning author. We are pleased to be able to publish this interview in an abridged form.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Joseph Pearce: In your work as a whole would you say that the spiritual or the philosophical dimension is more important than the political?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Yes certainly. First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

ЈЕРОЂАКОН ЈОВАН (ЋУЛИБРК)

НЕ ОДПАЗИ У ТИИШНУ

Iаn Сurtis (1956-1980), вођа мaнчестерске рок групе Јоу Division је потиуно посебна и самосвојна личност западног свијета: посљедњи харизматик у његовој историји, он доводи до краја његов христотражитсљски двиг и за крај XX вијека представља оно што су за своје вријеме били Бернар од Клервоа[i], Јован од Крста[ii], Томас Мертон[iii] или Франческо од Асизија[iv]. Но, за разлику од њих, његова смрт апсолутно обиљежава сав западни свијет данас: на њу се позива и наставља све што јс христочежњиво, али и сваки покрет и личност који отворено баратају реториком сатанизма.

Words of Warning to the Western World

Aleksandr I.Solzhenitsyn. 

Russian exile Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in Washington, D.C., on June 30, delivered a dramatic warning to all the world - and to Americans in particular. The Nobel Prize winning author, in his first major public address since his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974, stripped bare the crimes and excesses of the Communist masters in his native land. And he denounced the West for a "senseless process of endless concessions to aggressors" in the Kremlin. The text of the 90-minute address that follows is the translation approved by the author, reprinted with permission of the AFL-CIO, which invited him to speak.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Nobel Lecture in Literature 1970*

Interview with Solzhentisyn about "200 Years Together"

Moscow News

January 1-7, 2003

With his Dvesti let vmeste, or 200 Years Together, a historical study of the relationship between Russians and Jews in Russia, Alexander Solzhenitsyn calls for a better understanding and mutual empathy between the two nationalities. The second volume of the book, spanning the period from the 1917 Revolution to the mid-1970s, is about to hit the bookstalls. Ahead of the publication the author was interviewed by Moskovskiye Novosti editor Viktor Loshak in his house at Troitse-Lykovo