The latest project from the co-directors of Enough Room at the Table is a series of mini-documentary videos called Outspoken. I mentioned this back in August when the filmmakers came to my home to talk to me. Tonight, the first video hits the web. It features Yeshara Acosta, who I met just under three years ago and […]
Video: What empathy looks like
Everyone has a story. And that story runs through their entire life like a tapestry thread. This video from Cleveland Clinic asks: If you could stand in someone else’s shoes . . . hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently?” The only audio on this […]
Watch: The Planet Tender
The team behind The Record Keeper, a well-anticipated steampunk-style web series about angels navigating good, evil, God, and rebellion, has just announced a new project on the lives of angels. The Record Keeper was unceremoniously dropped by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists earlier this year. The teaser for The Planet Tender hit the internet last week and the full […]
Transcript: Realism and Nonviolence
In May 1967, NBC reporter Sander Vanocur conducted a candid interview with Martin Luther King, Jr., about the 1963 March on Washington, the civil rights movement, and the impromptu “I have a dream” segment that became an iconic part of the 20th Century’s soundtrack. Today, King’s 1963 speech is remembered and replayed as a testament […]
Reader Review 11 – Video Edition
For your weekly web browse. George Monbiot on Rewilding TEDGlobal 2013: “For more wonder, rewild the world.” (Monbiot) George Monbiot is a British investigative environmental journalist who has worked on domestic and international stories for more than two decades. His current work includes challenging the ultra-wealthy on population politics, but he also offers inspirational descriptions […]
Watch Disruption and Listen to Climate Stew
If you have 53 minutes today or at any time this week, you have the time to watch 350.org’s film, Disruption. It’s captioned in English. “DISRUPTION” – a film by KELLY NYKS & JARED P. SCOTT from Watch Disruption on Vimeo. “Climate change exacerbates every kind of social injustice that faith communities have fought against for […]
