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Interested in Film or Filmmaking? Join the Orthodox Filmmakers Group!

By Herman A. Middleton | Published: July 26, 2010
I was about to start an Orthodox Filmmakers group on Facebook, when I realized there already is one. So…rather than start a new one, I’m promoting the one that I found. If you are an Orthodox filmmaker…or even if you just like films and fancy yourself a patron of the arts, please check out the [...]
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Avatar and the Saints

By Herman A. Middleton | Published: January 29, 2010
I finally went to see Avatar a few days ago and was struck by one aspect in particular…a certain similarity between the Na’vi’s relationship to creation and the “right relation” that is renewed through the holy lives of the Saints (St. Seraphim’s bear and St. Gerasimos’s lion are the most obvious examples). James Cameron even [...]
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