<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:24px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_25984">Yes, of course, John!</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_26349">I was simply listing the questions that occurred to me that are specific to the film<i> An Act of Love</i>. I gave the designated conversation leader (and the entire small group) my ORID movie conversation grid last night before we watched <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27462">Boulevard</i> (starring Robin Williams--in his last dramatic role). Followed by an ORID movie conversation. <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27486">Without the context of RS-1, we didn't decode theological lingo. But there is a major life-changing event that jars a childless couple out of their comfortable marriage of illusions. Clearly a Christ-event (for those with eyes to see). So the gay hustler in <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27121">Boulevard </i>is (gasp!) a Christ figure. Shades of Ma Greeney.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27318">Marshall<br> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_25960"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_25893"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27538"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27688" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 24px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27687"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27686"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, October 20, 2017 6:44 PM, John Epps <jlepps39@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27685"><div id="yiv7817944650"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27684"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27683">These are very good questions, Marshall, and should provoke a deep discussion -- perhaps even a transformative one. One suggestion: there needs to be one or two Objective level questions to get things going. Something like "What's a word or phrase that stood out to you?" "What scene caught your attention?" I like to go around and get an answer from everyone on these questions to "break the ice" and free people to respond to the other more thoughtful questions. Good luck!</div><div class="yiv7817944650gmail_extra" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27961"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7817944650gmail_quote" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27965">On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 11:20 AM, W. J. via OE <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv7817944650gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27964"><div class="yiv7817944650yqt4415601751" id="yiv7817944650yqt81190"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27963"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:24px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508529782354_27962"><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_66785">Sometimes, even after we're been put out to pasture, the old guard is called upon to teach our tried and true old stuff to a new crowd.</div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_67982">So here's my latest simplified take on how to structure a movie conversation--boiled down from the Golden Pathways, but with a few updates ("Where did you see transformation in the movie?").</div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_68129">Turns out there wasn't anything this simple in the archives that I could find.</div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_68120">So tonight I'm facilitating a planning/screening group that will develop a film discussion series for a local church.</div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_68179">Given that it's a UMC--with all the angst and cultural warfare that's been swamping us--the topic will be 'human sexuality.'</div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_68198">Next Wednesday we kick off the series with a screening of <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871edited-link-editor yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871enhancr2_f0a37a5e-c5da-9149-db04-2d0735c98de3" id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_68380" target="_blank" href="http://www.anactoflovefilm.com/">An Act of Love</a>.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_68402">Here's the key conversation questions I came up with (for Methodists who are moved to show the film):<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72139"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72140"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72141" size="3">What for you was the key human issue in the film? (get a variety of answers from across the group)<br id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72142" clear="none"></font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72143"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72144"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72145" size="3">What triggered the underlying conflict in this church?</font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72146"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72147"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72148" size="3">What was this conflict <i id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72149">really</i> about? (push for deeper insights here)<br id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72150" clear="none"></font></b></div><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72151"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72152" size="3">How was the conflict handled or <i id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72153">not</i> handled by the conference leadership? <br id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72154" clear="none"></font></b><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72155"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72156"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72157" size="3">How did you respond emotionally to the film?</font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72158"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72159"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72160" size="3">What emotions did you notice?</font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72161"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72162"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72163" size="3">Did you feel sleepy? wide awake? distracted? uncomfortable? upset? bored? relaxed? on the edge of your seat? or what?</font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72164"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72165"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72166" size="3">What in the film made you feel that way?<br id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72167" clear="none"></font></b></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72168"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72169"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72170" size="3">Where did you notice the group's emotional response?<br id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72171" clear="none"></font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72172"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72173"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72174" size="3">How would you be a reconciling presence in Frank Shaefer's church?</font></b></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72175"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72176"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72177" size="3">Imagine
that you are the bishop. As a minister of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18),
what would you say to the members of this church who were opposed to
Frank Shaefer?</font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72178"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72179"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72180" size="3">As
a bishop, how would you honor a rule in the Discipline with which you
fundamentally disagree? (incongruence/paradox/double bind)<br id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72181" clear="none"></font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72182"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72183"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72184" size="3">Where did you see transformation in the film?</font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72185"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72186"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72187" size="3">Where did you see hope in the film?</font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72188"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72189"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72190" size="3">Where did you see Divine Activity (or the work of the Holy Spirit) happening in the film?</font></b></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72191"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72192"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72193" size="3">What do you see as Frank Shaefer's true calling? What did he discover about God's intention for him?<br id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72194" clear="none"></font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72195"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72196"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72197" size="3">What have you realized about your true calling?</font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72198"><b id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72199"><font id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_72200" size="3">What has deepened your understanding of your true calling?</font></b></div><div id="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508502076017_68420"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7817944650m_-1272670979298632871yahoo-link-enhancr-card 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