Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

Ours is an age of pointless exercise. Witness the widespread enthusiasm for the marathon. Never before have so many Americans put their bodies through such rigors solely for the sake of being able to say that they have. Whenever a means to an end becomes an end in itself, our priorities have been perverted, our perspective distorted. Exercise for exercise’s sake, schooling for schooling’s sake, art for art’s sake, ritual for ritual’s sake — each is an empty activity. — “To the Greater Glory of God,” F.R. Duplantier, 1986

The Mission is a terrific movie. If you haven’t seen it, you should. If you have seen it but not recently, you should watch it again. A movie about the persecution of Christians by an overreaching government seems especially appropriate just now.