{"id":67,"date":"2008-07-28T12:55:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T12:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/churchbasementroadshow\/2008\/07\/dark-knight-and-the-dark-night.html"},"modified":"2008-07-28T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T12:55:03","slug":"dark-knight-and-the-dark-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/churchbasementroadshow\/2008\/07\/dark-knight-and-the-dark-night.html","title":{"rendered":"Dark Knight and the Dark night of the soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we had a few days off from the tour and Tony and I went to see Dark Knight<\/a>, the new Batman franchise film. Indeed this film was more sinister and melancholy than so many super hero movies–and yet more realistic in terms of the ambiguities involved in trying to be a helpful contribution to the world.<\/p>\n


\nThe “good guys” in the film are tortured by the task of subduing an insane while responding to popular criticism from those they hoped to protect and help. This seems a lot like the real world, where it is so easy to be misunderstood. We have had critics attend our shows in various cities on this tour–and it is curious to watch them scribbling in their notebooks as we whoop it up on the stage or share deeply from our life stories. Whether intentional or not, Dark Knight resonates with the term dark night… of the soul.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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