Last Friday evening, the Saint Dunstan's University Institute for Christianity and Culture sponsored a banquet as a fundraiser in the new School of Sustainable Design Engineering at UPEI. Funds raised go to the Canadian Catholic Student Association which is hosting the national conference here this month.
The occasion was the second annual Blessed Cardinal Newman Dinner. The guest speaker was Fr. Tom Rosica, who spoke on Cardinal Newman and Pope Francis. Catholic Studies students reported on their "Catholics in New York" experiential learning trip last February.
This film is a remake of an early telling of the story of Nat Turner, a slave who led a rebellion in Virginia in 1831. Turner is literate, having learned to read from the pages of the Bible. He was forced to use his preaching skill to keep the slaves “in line” and productive for their owners. Nat struggles with this task, because he knows, instinctively, the Scriptures are really about freedom. We see suffering, but also one man’s passionate conviction he would prefer death to a continued life of slavery. The story is a hard one, but it’s history. Helps us understand the current racism and revenge that flourish even now.
