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Peace Center of Delaware County First-Friday Free Film Showing: CONSTANTINE'S SWORD, February 5, 7p.m.
Peace Center of Delaware County* First-Friday Free Film Showings The First-Friday film showings at the Peace Center of Delaware County, co-sponsored by the Brandywine Peace Community, include light refreshments and after-film discussion.For directions or more information, visit www.delcopeacecenter.org or call 610-544-1818 Friday, February 5, 2010 Why are intolerance, violence and war so deeply ingrained in religion? Why did the Cross become a rallying symbol for persecution? How does one man who loves the Church confront its history of crusade and conquest? Constantine's Sword is the story of a journey to confront the past and uncover the roots of religiously inspired violence and war. Inspired by the best-selling book of the same name by acclaimed author and former Roman Catholic priest, James Carroll, the film documentary brings a history of religious intolerance to life, tracing it as a source of war and the fanaticism that threatens the world today. In the film (directed by Oscar nominated film maker, Oren Jacoby), Carroll discovers through his travels and research the terrible legacy that reverberates across the centuries--from the Emperor Constantine's vision of the cross as a sword and symbol of power, to the rise of genocidal anti-Semitism, to modern-day wars and conflicts sparked by religious extremism. Carroll's journey takes him both into his own past--where he comes to terms with his father's role as a three-star U.S. Air Force General in preparing for nuclear war--and into the wider world, where he uncovers evidence of church-sanctioned violence against Jews, Muslims, and others, including how some evangelical Christians are proselytizing inside the U.S. armed forces. At its core, Constantine's Sword is a compelling personal narrative - a kind of detective story - as one man uncovers the dark areas of the history of his own religious faith and of the church he loves. Upcoming First-Friday Films at the Peace Center of Delaware County: Friday, March 5, 7p.m. - The Hurt Locker (2009, 131 mins., rated R for war violence and language), the critically acclaimed (and sure to be Oscar nominated) film that follows a bomb disposal unit in Iraq and the depiction that "war is a drug". April 2010 - 35th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War Friday, April 2, 7p.m. - Hearts and Minds (1974, 112 mins., rated R for language scenes of war and sexual violence). Special showing the classic documentary about the Vietnam War. The Academy Award winning Best Feature Documentary in 1975, released shortly before the war's end, is also about U.S. militarism and arrogance, of a belief in U.S. rightness of action around the world, and of a time, a place, and a legacy of war that forever defined a generation. The after-film discussion will feature Sophie Quinn-Judge, who will just be back from an extended visit to Vietnam. Sophie was an AFSC aid worker in Vietnam during the war.
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