USA Today featuring Dean Nelson's "The Gospel according to The Shawshank Redemption"

A few weeks back I featured the Gospel according to the Coen Brothers....an interesting take indeed. If you have time please visit and read.

 Monday's USA Today featured Dean Nelson's "Holy moments surround us" in The Forum.

It's a sort-of "Gospel according to The Shawshank redemption"...and I liked it.

I was struck by how spot-on Nelson is in this USA piece. Opening his piece with a review of the escape scene from "The Shawshank Redemption" (which other than the previously mentioned Dude from " The Big Lebowski" was one of my late son's favorites), Nate would have loved reading Dean's piece...and probably IS enjoying it from his position in Heaven...and he's a lot more accurate than either Dean or I (or you?) could be on this subject.

For your "thinking enjoyment",

Den

Here's the column:

'Holy' moments surround us

You don’t have to be religious to know that there’s something bigger out there, often in plain sight.

By Dean Nelson 

In the movie TheShawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins' character serves a life sentence for a crime he did not commit, but he eventually escapes through the prison's sewer system, makes it through the outfall pipe and collapses in a river. He staggers to his feet, and in a deafening downpour, lightning flashing around him, he stumbles through the water from the earth and the sky, takes off his prison clothing and heads toward freedom. When I first saw that scene, all I could think of was one word — baptism. He had just crawled through some of the worst muck imaginable. He had just lived through the worst life imaginable. And now he's in the water, shedding his old self. (The whole article)

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