{"id":71608,"date":"2023-03-16T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/arts-events-can-be-reminders-of-powerful-messages\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:23:00","slug":"arts-events-can-be-reminders-of-powerful-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/arts-events-can-be-reminders-of-powerful-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts events can be reminders of powerful messages"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oscars awards ceremony and World Book Day featured in two recent Thought For the Day<\/em> broadcasts from Scottish Episcopalian clergy on BBC Radio Scotland\u2019s Good Morning Scotland<\/em> programme.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, where \u201cbright lights, tinsel and glitter\u201d dominate the annual showbusiness gathering, Bishop David Chillingworth (pictured above) gave consideration to the films and documentaries which might have less glamour, but can deliver important messages about life and creation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a great film buff, but there are important things going on here,\u201d said the former Primus. \u201cThere is power in films like All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em> with its message about the dreadful realities of war \u2013 and in the Banshees of Inisherin<\/em> which explores a story of lost friendship.\u00a0 And of course David Attenborough\u2019s Wild Isle<\/em>s has the power to change attitudes and enlist people in the cause of protecting the natural world in its beauty and diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n

To listen to Bishop David\u2019s full Thought For The Day<\/em>, click here<\/a>. Bishop David can be heard at the 1:22:25 mark.<\/p>\n

A few days before Bishop David, the Rev Diana Hall marked World Book Day, by recalling a book she loved as a child \u2013 The Hobbit<\/em> \u2013 and \u00a0the book she would choose today.<\/p>\n

\u201cStorytelling plays an important role in shaping cultures, beliefs and identities,\u201d said the Rector of St Anne’s Scottish Episcopal & Methodist Church, Dunbar (pictured above). \u201cThere are stories we tell ourselves to divide and separate us from others, and then there are stories that bring us together or allow us see the world from the perspective of someone else. It\u2019s incredibly powerful!<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing on an adventure with Bilbo Baggins took me out of myself and into a whole new, imaginary, realm. On the way I learned important lessons about the fight between forces of good and evil, all while curled up safely beside the fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if I had to choose a volume for World Book Day, it would be the Bible. There are good reasons why the Bible is the best-selling book in the world. For Christians, this collection of volumes binds up the whole of history. Its texts range across many genres, covering thousands of years of writing… from love poetry to gory histories of war and biographies of Jesus, the best and the worst of human nature is all there. And beyond that, it tells the story of God\u2019s relationship with the world, the promise of God\u2019s love and of hope for the future. This is a story with power to transform-drawing us beyond ourselves and including us in eternity itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

To hear Rev Hall\u2019s full Thought For The Day<\/em>, click here<\/a>\u00a0and go to the 1:22:32 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oscars awards ceremony and World Book Day featured in two recent Thought For the Day broadcasts from Scottish Episcopalian clergy on BBC Radio Scotland\u2019s Good Morning Scotland programme. After the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, where \u201cbright lights, tinsel and glitter\u201d dominate the annual showbusiness gathering, Bishop David Chillingworth (pictured above) gave consideration to […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}