{"id":428,"date":"2009-02-12T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T08:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/02\/milk-best-spiritual-film-of-th.html"},"modified":"2009-02-12T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T08:50:41","slug":"milk-best-spiritual-film-of-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/02\/milk-best-spiritual-film-of-th.html","title":{"rendered":"Milk: Best Spiritual Film of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/unu-9vM9VZw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">Belierfnet has nominated&nbsp;five fine films for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Entertainment\/Movies\/Beliefnet-Film-Awards-2009\/Beliefnet-Film-Awards-2009.aspx\"> best spiritual film of the year<\/a>. &nbsp;But the list leaves out the winner:&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">Milk.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filminfocus.com\/focusfeatures\/film\/milk\/\">The movie&nbsp;tells the story of Harvey Milk,<\/a> the gay <st1:City w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> superintendent who died a martyr for the cause of equality and justice. Long before Hope became a catchphrase for President Barack Obama, Harvey Milk was telling everyone how important hope was for a community to thrive &#8211; not only his own gay community, but every community.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">&#8220;Without hope, life is not worth living.&nbsp; You&#8217;ve got to give them Hope!&#8221; is a refrain we hear Harvey Milk repeat throughout this film and he did give people hope, and continues to give people hope.&nbsp; Unfortunately, my guess<span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">&nbsp;is that a movie about a civil rights leader who died a martyr for&nbsp;the liberation of his people&nbsp;from any community aside from the gay community would have made this most spiritual&nbsp;list.&nbsp;<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">Milk became the embodiment of a people who were not going to let religious or social oppression destroy who they were and how they loved. <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">Spiritual is not&nbsp;just about how you feel in the inside &#8211; spiritual&nbsp;is as spiritual does.&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">&#8220;Justice is what Love&nbsp;looks like in Public&#8221;&nbsp;&#8211; Cornel West. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">Write in Milk for best spiritual film of the year. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Belierfnet has nominated&nbsp;five fine films for best spiritual film of the year. &nbsp;But the list leaves out the winner:&nbsp; Milk. 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Long before Hope became a catchphrase for President Barack Obama, Harvey&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Milk: Best Spiritual Film of the Year - Progressive Revival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/02\/milk-best-spiritual-film-of-th.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Milk: Best Spiritual Film of the Year - Progressive Revival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Belierfnet has nominated&nbsp;five fine films for best spiritual film of the year. &nbsp;But the list leaves out the winner:&nbsp; Milk. 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