Forum @ 10:15 a.m., on Sunday, March 20, 2022: Ken Turan on The Oscars, Movies and the State of the Industry

On Sunday, March 20, 2022, our favorite film critic Ken Turan shared his annual pre-Academy Awards look at what’s hot and what’s not in recent film festivals and in the Oscar race. Before his April 2020 retirement, Ken was film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition as well as the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been a staff writer for the Washington Post as well as The Times’ book review editor. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he teaches film reviewing and non-fiction writing at USC – and we are so grateful to have him back with us to “talk movies” during this Oscars season.

Sermon @ 11:30 a.m., on Sunday, March 20, 2022: Once Upon a Time

“We are hanging onto this world like it is something we like.  We are hanging onto this world like it was something we need. We are hanging onto this world like we have no other choice.  And it’s not that we have run out of alternatives, it’s just that we have been beaten into a poverty of imagination. A poverty of faith. A poverty of the power of Once Upon a Time. And so, Jesus gets us back on track. Jesus activates our holy imagination. Jesus says ‘Story, Story’ … and the people cry “Story” and gather around. Jesus says, ‘Once upon a time.’”

Sermon by Mike Kinman from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 20, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Exodus 3:1-15 and Luke 13:1-9. Read the text of the sermon here.

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