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About 2 years ago, I was reading Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing when I came across a tale about a heretic, a priest, and the meaning of life that stopped me dead in my tracks, and that I've been trying to untangle ever since. This is that story.
Films featured: Train Dreams, First Reformed, Winter Light, The Tree of Life, Silence, A Hidden Life, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford & To the Wonder.
0:00 What was here to be found.
2:26 His name was Robert Grainier.
5:34 He became a heretic. So.
8:44 Who can dream of God? This man did.
11:52 He waited to be called to he knew not what.
14:23 And the priest?
17:28 He understood what the priest could not.
21:50 God had outwitted him, of course.
23:25 But the witness remained.
27:06 What the priest saw at last
31:36 The lesson of a life
37:12 Performing the act of witnessing
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About 2 years ago, I was reading Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing when I came across a tale about a heretic, a priest, and the meaning of life that stopped me dead in my tracks, and that I've been trying to untangle ever since. This is that story.
Films featured: Train Dreams, First Reformed, Winter Light, The Tree of Life, Silence, A Hidden Life, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford & To the Wonder.
0:00 What was here to be found.
2:26 His name was Robert Grainier.
5:34 He became a heretic. So.
8:44 Who can dream of God? This man did.
11:52 He waited to be called to he knew not what.
14:23 And the priest?
17:28 He understood what the priest could not.
21:50 God had outwitted him, of course.
23:25 But the witness remained.
27:06 What the priest saw at last
31:36 The lesson of a life
37:12 Performing the act of witnessing
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