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X-WR-CALNAME:Souls for Sale: When Christians Ruled the Silent Screens
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DESCRIPTION:A lecture and documentary screening at Hope College on Thursday
 \, Nov. 14\, will explore the portrayal of religion and prayer across the 
 history of film.\n\nDr. Terry Lindvall\, who is the C.S. Lewis Endowed Cha
 ir of Communication and Christian Thought at Virginia Wesleyan University\
 , will present the lecture “Souls for Sale: When Christians Ruled the Si
 lent Screens” at 4 p.m. in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha M
 iller Center for Global Communication.\n\nThe documentary film “Hollywoo
 d\, Teach Us to Pray” will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Knickerbocker Theat
 re.  The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer period with L
 indvall\, who was a co-producer of the film.\n\nThe public is invited to b
 oth events.  Admission is free.\n\nThe lecture will focus on the silent-fi
 lm era.  As described in the presentation’s abstract\, “In a curious a
 nd unexpected trip through time\, Professor Terry Lindvall opens early 20t
 h century archives to find treasures where churches found a universal lang
 uage of faith\, sin\, and grace in silent movies. Souls were saved with mo
 vies\, but then souls were sold for the pleasures of the screen.”\n\nThe
  film “Hollywood\, Teach Us to Pray” offers a journey through American
  film history\, surveying how people of all races\, genders\, ethnic group
 s\, ages\, economic statuses\, and spiritual conditions talk\, shout\, whi
 sper\, haggle\, cry\, sing and wrestle with God.  The documentary highligh
 ts the inclusion of prayers in movie narratives as turning points in the p
 lot (“The African Queen”)\; spiritual weapons (“Election”)\; cultu
 ral markers (“It’s a Wonderful Life”)\; dramatic tour de forces (“
 Bad Times at the El Royale”)\; comedy (Charlie Chaplin\, Buster Keaton\,
  and “Talladega Nights”)\; westerns (“Pale Rider” and “Rooster C
 ogburn”) and traces of transcendence (“The Tree of Life”).  It inclu
 des interviews with directors like Robert Benton\, Michael Schultz and Dav
 id Anspaugh\; critics like Justin Chang and Leonard Maltin\; and religious
  personalities like Father James Martin\, Professor Robert Johnston and Si
 ster Helen Prejean.\n\nLindvall is a C.S. Lewis scholar and expert in Amer
 ican film and media who is interested in how theology and film can interse
 ct. He is the author of several books including\, “Surprised By Laughter
 : The Comic World of C.S. Lewis.” He has served as a U.S. Army Reserve c
 haplain\, has taught at Wheaton College and The College of William and Mar
 y\, and has served as president of Regent University. Lindvall earned his 
 Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Seminary and Ph.D. at the University o
 f Southern California.\n\nThe lecture and screening are co-sponsored by th
 e college’s Department of Religion and Cultural Affairs Committee.\n\nTo
  inquire about accessibility or if you need accommodations to fully partic
 ipate in the event\, please email accommodations@hope.edu.  Updates relate
 d to events are posted when available at hope.edu/calendar in the individu
 al listings.
GEO:42.788088;-86.099523
LOCATION:Martha Miller Center for Global Communication\, Fried Hemenway Aud
 itorium 135
SUMMARY:Souls for Sale: When Christians Ruled the Silent Screens
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.hope.edu/event/lecture-dr-terry-lindvall
CATEGORIES:Academics
CATEGORIES:Arts and Humanities Divisions
CATEGORIES:Religion
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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