Marshall and the Movies

The Bible has a lot to teach us, but you might be interested to know that it can actually lend insights into cinema.

For instance, on my Wilderness trip, I read the entire book of James.  There’s a passage in that book, James 1:5-6, that really stuck out to me:

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

Ever since I saw “Doubt” back in 2008, I wondered why John Patrick Shanley used the violent weather, particularly the wind, as a motif throughout the movie.  And now I know; it was a clever Biblical allusion.  At least that’s what I’m going to assume.