{"id":53210,"date":"2016-02-03T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T01:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_alissa_wilkinson-dispatch_from_sundance_agnus_dei\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T01:10:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T01:10:49","slug":"ct_alissa_wilkinson-dispatch_from_sundance_agnus_dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53210","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Alissa Wilkinson&#8211;Dispatch from Sundance: &#39;Agnus Dei&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the oldest refrains in the world is the theodicy question: how could a good God let bad things happen?<\/p>\n<p>That question animates Agnus Dei, which premieres at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday. But the film&#8217;s answer is expansive, complex, and subtly subversive. Directed by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel, Gemma Bovary) and led by an all-female cast, the movie tries to approach (but not fix) the repercussions of unspeakable cruelty with the quiet balm of beauty. It\u2019s a must-see for CT readers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2016\/january-web-only\/dispatch-from-sundance-agnus-dei.html?\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the oldest refrains in the world is the theodicy question: how could a good God let bad things happen? That question animates Agnus Dei, which premieres at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday. But the film&#8217;s answer is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53210\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,419,93,154,108,165,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-movies-television","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-theodicy","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}