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My Journey to the New Bonhoeffer Movie (#271, 5 Dec. 2024)

Summary

In this episode, Rockne Cole reviews the movie about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, exploring his life, theology, and the significance of his sacrifices during the Nazi regime. He discusses his initial reluctance to see the film, the powerful impact of its trailer, and the importance of supporting positive film projects. The conversation delves into Bonhoeffer's theological insights, particularly the concepts of cheap grace versus costly grace, and reflects on the need for courage in faith. Cole also shares personal reflections on moments of synchronicity and the absence of a word for joyful crying in English, concluding with a call to action for listeners to support meaningful cinema.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to the Bonhoeffer Movie Experience

03:01 The Journey to Watching the Movie

05:56 The Impact of the Trailer and Movie Quality

08:46 Supporting Positive Film Projects

12:11 Exploring Bonhoeffer's Life and Theology

15:00 Reflections on the Movie's Themes

17:48 The Significance of Sacrifice and Courage

21:08 The Concept of Cheap Grace vs. Costly Grace

24:00 Synchronicity and Personal Reflections

26:54 The Need for New Words in English

30:06 Conclusion and Call to Action

Book Recommendations and Trailer

1. Bonhoeffer Movie Trailer

2. Metaxas Biography

3. Cost of Discipleship by Bonhoeffer

Duration:: 40m
Broadcast on:: 05 Dec 2024
Audio Format:: other

What is going on, guys? I just went to the Dietrich Bonhoeffer movie. It was frickin' awesome. I strongly encourage you guys to go and see it in the theater. And so for this episode, I'm gonna explain to you several different things about this movie. First, I'm gonna tell you why at first I had zero desire to go to this movie. And I'm gonna cover why I decided to go to this movie. We're gonna cover a little bit about what I liked and what I didn't like about the movie. I'm gonna identify a new word that the English language does not have but should because I experienced it a lot during the actual movie itself. And we're gonna cover two quotes, one Bible verse and one quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's book, "The Cost of Discipleship," which he wrote in 1937. The Bible verse is from my reading today of Reuben Youngtahl, so I'm gonna share that with you because it connects perfectly to the Bonhoeffer "Plast of Discipleship." And it was a little minor moment of synchronicity, so we'll explain what synchronicity is and why it's so important. So first off, a little bit about the movie itself. The movie features Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great Lutheran theologian of Germany who was executed April 9, 1945 by the Nazis. Everyone loves Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He is one of the heroes of the Lutheran tradition, great theologian. He had spent time obviously in Germany, he was from Germany. His brother died in World War I in the early 1930s, comes over to the United States and experiences New York, the black church, jazz, and then he goes back to Germany, he finds a seminary and goes back to the United States for a little bit when he feels that like he needs to be saved or people send him back over there. And then he retreats to goes back to Germany, decides to enter a conspiracy to kill Hitler and is eventually executed. So that's the thumbnail sketch of his life. I first really did a deep dive into the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 2011 with the book Dietrich Bonhoeffer, pastor, martyr, prophet, spy, a 2011 book by Eric Metaxas, who is an evangelical Christian. It's a fabulous book, absolutely loved it. That's the book you need to buy if you want to learn more about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In fact, I'm probably going to reread it again and do a subsequent podcast on my rereading of this particular book. But in terms of this movie, first of all, this movie was not on my radar screen at all. I didn't know what was going to be made. I didn't follow any of the controversy surrounding it. No idea. The only reason why I learned about this particular movie is that we were looking for something to do during Thanksgiving, and we really wanted to see the latest Venom movie. And the Venom movie we thought it would still be around came out late October, and I still haven't seen it, but there were really no places close by where we could see it. So we looked into Prairie Machine, which is about a half hour away from my town. And it wasn't there. So we're like, "Oh my gosh, what are we going to do?" But while I looked at that, I saw that they had a movie at Bonhoeffer, and I was like, "I don't like Bonhoeffer." And when I thought about this, I had zero desire to see it movie in Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I mean zero less than zero, it's not that I don't find him to be a wonderful historical figure, one of the top theologians of the 20th century, and especially with his dramatic death in 1945, April 9, a couple of weeks before the third right fell, all sorts of drama contained within it. The reason why I had no desire to see this movie was, I was just like, "You know what? I'm just not in the mood for it. I just can care less about some heavy brooding movie about a German theologian in the 1930s." Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, he thought against the Nazis. I mean, the book was really good and really deep, but I just didn't have any desire to see it in a movie for less than zero. I had little desire to actually see this frickin' movie. And so I decided I'm not going to go to it. We decided not to see any movie that weekend just because they didn't have venom. So I guess I should give thanks to Venom for leading me on the path to Bonhoeffer. So let me share with you a little bit about how I decided to ultimately go. So I went from no desire to go to being like, "Oh my God, I can see this movie." What it has to do with probably one of the best trailers I think I have ever seen. And to get to my critique of the movie, one thing I didn't like, this is one of those movies where I think the trailer is almost better than the movie. The only thing that kind of reminds me that was kind of similar to it was the movie Cloud Atlas by the Wieckowski, Wieckowski, whatever the hell they're called, siblings, you know, ones, trains, so you got to call them siblings now. Really good trailer for Cloud Atlas. They did the Red Bull Wings You, Gives You Wings on, super good, super cool, very inspiring. And then the movie was good but didn't quite match the trailer, you know, those kind of movies. This movie, the movie matched the trailer and it was really, really good and I want you to go see it and I'll tell you why. But the trailer itself was freaking awesome, so I'm going to include a link to it in the show notes and you've got to watch the trailer because I guarantee you, you know, when Tommy Boy when he said that Chris Farley was like trying to sell someone, he didn't know why he didn't give a guarantee because if you want to guarantee all you can do is if that's what you want, I'll take a dump in a box and put a guarantee on it. And all you have at that point is a guaranteed piece of shit, remember that line? I do guarantee I guarantee you, if you watch the trailer, you will want to go see the movie. That's how good the trailer was. So what's the trailer? Oh my God, you got to see the trailer. The trailer contains the song sound of silence, not by Simon and Garfunkel, but by this like awesome alternative rock band called Disturbed, who is so good. And then it juxtaposes the sound to the movie and the power of the cost of discipleship of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and it is so good. It gives me chills even thinking about it. So I went from no desire to see it to, oh my God, I got to see it. And I had remembered that Eric Mitoxis had done this one of the best selling biographies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for the last hundred years. He sold over a million copies. And so I thought, gosh, I wonder if Eric Mitoxis was behind this particular project. And so I went on to Spotify and listened to a podcast that I had heard and I'll see if I can try to put a link to that in the show notes. But Mitoxis said, no, I had nothing to actually do. So on this podcast, he said that he had nothing to do with this particular movie. But the filmmaker confirmed that he was inspired by Mitoxis' book. And so there's no formal link between the two, but Eric Mitoxis was an enthusiastic endorser of this movie. And so he basically told his listeners. He said, you got to see it in the movie theaters the first weekend when already screwed up and not seen it during the first Thanksgiving weekend. So we decided to actually go on a Tuesday just so we could try to give it some more momentum in the box office. And if it's still showing anywhere around you for this upcoming weekend, totally go see it. And if you listen to this podcast like in 2025, buy it on Amazon, support it, watch it, share it. If you're part of a church, get the licensing fees for it so that you can support these filmmakers because, and I'll get into why it's so important to support this film financially. The producer, writer, and director of this film was a guy named Todd Kolarki, Kolarnikki who I had never heard of, but I did learn that he was the producer of one of my favorite movies and probably yours to else. And so that kind of he's involved and totally have to go. But he was the writer, producer, and director. So it was obviously a passion project for Todd Kolarki, Kolarnikki. The movie itself is called Pastor Spy Sassen. And so why? Mitoxis that it's so important to see this movie is that a lot of, of course, I think most of you know this, most of the movies in terms of how long they're at the theaters depends upon their box office. So obviously if it's not, people aren't going to see it, they switch to a different movie. And that must have been what happened to Venom. But I'm still going to see Venom and it's that last one. It just must have not done as well, because I thought for sure it would still be around during Thanksgiving. But it wasn't. So I was like, I totally need to support the studio. Why don't want to support the studio? If Angel Studios, and for those of you who celebrate and identify as a Christian, it's located in Provo, Utah, and it was also the producer of the movie, Sound of Freedom, which featured a former Homeland Security agent that went on a personal mission, saved kids that were involved in sex trafficking at a $14 million budget and grossed over $250 million worldwide. So I was like, oh my gosh, it has a fantastic trailer, Sound of Silence. Oh my gosh, it's so good. And then it's matched with producer of L and it's by the studio studios that produced Sound of Freedom, which I was not going to see, but now I'm totally going to see because I want to produce this. I want to support this studio. Why? You know, there are so many dark forces in Hollywood. They're not doing positive Christian inspiring content, and it doesn't necessarily have to be contrast Christian, but I like producers and movies that focus on the light. Their purpose, their intent is based upon the light of the creator. Now, of course, to explore the light also means that you have to explore the dark side as well, and you have to make this movie and the movie and the producing has to be entertaining. I don't know about you, but a lot of the Christian films that I had seen earlier was kind of a mixed bag. I definitely liked Passion of the Christ. It was really, really good. I'm definitely going to watch it every year during Easter, but a lot of it's kind of like a Hallmark movie style type thing and a little too preachy. This particular movie is not directly Christianity as such. It does not espouse that point of view, and my guess is, is that Todd Commernicki tried to kind of avoid Eric Metaxas. Primarily, because he didn't want him to be considered a right-wing movie, but if you listen to Eric Metaxas, he was saying, "Hey, if you're an atheist, if you're a... I suppose... If you're anyone, go see the movie. You're bleeding heart liberal friends. Go see the movie because it's a story that's universal that appeals to all." And then when you watch this particular movie, you can just see by virtue of the trailer that it is a very well-produced and quality and entertaining movie. So it is very well done. It has no stars that you would probably know, which I actually kind of like because if you don't have stars, it means the script has to be really good and the production has to be very good, then it also keeps the cost down so they can continue to produce this kind of content. I think they need to focus more on the script writers, which is more important than the actual actors. There's a lot of really good movie actors. And so I was like, "You got me." And it is a good production. The producer of Val, awesome trailer by the studios that produce Sound of Rido in Eric Metaxas' book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. And I'll do a separate one on this particular book, but it's so good because it covers all the theology of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer and all the things that were happening in Germany in the 1930s within the church. And Bonhoeffer was one of these people that he was just an incredible theologian, one of the top theologians of the 20th century. But and this gets into kind of my reflections on the movie itself, I'm not going to give anything away. I think anyone who knows about Bonhoeffer knows that he's executed. So it's kind of like seeing the Titanic, you know, the ships going down, what happens up to that point, Bonhoeffer it's super, super sad. He is executed two to three weeks before the end of hostilities. So literally, and I think it came on personal orders from Hitler to kill and exterminate everyone that was involved in the plot to kill him in July 20th of 1944. But if you remember this, this was the Operation Valkyrie in which Hitler was very nearly killed at the Wool Slayer, there was a bomb placed under the table, but the table was so heavy that a block that blast and he wasn't killed, obviously he didn't die until he committed suicide in April 30th of 1945. But so let's get into the movie itself and give you kind of what I really loved about it. So what I didn't like about it, but I still strongly advise you to see it. First off, it's very well produced, very well acted. I think it's ability to evoke the period is very well done. So totally see it on that basis. In terms of what I absolutely loved about it, it does a pretty deep dive into Bonhoeffer's experience in the black church in the early 1930s. He went to study at Union Theological Seminary, which at the time, as I understand it, was considered one of the top theological seminaries in the United States. I think the great theologian, right, Walt Neibor was a professor there. So if you're going to be kind of a theologian with a capital T, you'd go to this particular seminary. But what was really good about the movie and it gets into this, I want to learn more about this particular thing, is that it also identifies Bonhoeffer's relationship to the black church. What he really discovered, there was another student there, and I don't remember the student's name, that introduced Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the black church and the joy present within the black church. Now, I don't know about you, I'm a card carry Lutheran, I love Lutheranism, but one of the things that really for the longest time, I absolutely love and adore the service, love it. We love the form in it, doesn't mean we can't improve it. And now I'm even kind of an LV.LV Lutheran Book of Worship from the mid 70s guy, we're going to love that. Then I'm even a little angry because I'm a card carry Lutheran that they changed it from the 1970s, Green Book version. So I do love that service. That said, for the longest time, I couldn't get through the service. I was so turned off by the church because it was so dull, I was like, "Why am I here? Why am I going here? Why? What's the purpose?" I literally did not get it, and I did not get it until I was about 40 when I actually started going again voluntarily. And now I'm totally in, like I totally get it now, it takes me a while to figure things out. But the black church, if you tend to a black church, you get it, right? You go because you experience a joy and a lightness and a celebration of life that isn't present when you embrace the creator of all things. And this gets to my favorite scene in the movie, which you will see, and I'm not giving the thing away because it's just a really good scene in the movie where the pastor of this, and I believe it's the Abyssinian black church communicates to the teacher, he said, "Well, when did you discover God?" I was like, "What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? When did I learn about it? When did I discover God?" Like, "Well, when did you meet God?" It's basically what the pastor was asking. And then he had identified that he had been gambling, this is the pastor, the senior pastor. He had been gambling in kind of a seedy place, and you know, most of the time, gambling is kind of seedy. He'd probably drink in. He probably was getting laid a lot and committing a lot of sins, but he had gambling and lost all of his money, and then he had walked away losing all his money, and he saw this revival tent, and he walked in, and he felt this love, joy, acceptance, and forgiveness. He felt the light and the joy associated with that, and he had met the Lord. He had embraced the light, and once he was in the light, he was forever hooked, and that became his goal, is the desire to share the joy, the spirit. I believe some people call this, I'm not sure whether Carl Jung calls it the anima, the thing that animates old thing, the Holy Spirit. That's why I'm so tripping on that whole cost, not the whole cost, the Pentecost, where the Holy Spirit transformed the disciples into apostles that spread the light, the breath of God, all people, and that, that's so good. That is where I've really started to experience this, and so often, you know, I had mentioned that bonfire was one of the key theologians of the 20th century, and I'm always kind of turned off by big theology, like I just, I don't want to read about someone who makes it so complicated, so like you have to have a PhD to understand. I'm kind of a kindergarten theologian, like, like, Jesus loves me this I know, like religion should be super civil, and that's one of the reasons why I love Lutheranism is that it comes down to really one concept and one concept alone through faith you receive God's grace. You just need to plug in to the creator of all things, and you are energized forever more. Your only duty in response for this gift of grace that you receive is to share and to be a beacon to others, and this movie so effectively conveys that. There's a lot of other good parts, but to actually see it, you actually have to go to the movie. Okay, one thing that I did not like about the movie, it did not include the sound of silence in the movie itself. So you know, here it is, this freaking awesome song that was so powerful by disturbed who I had never heard of before. Actually my partner reminded me that she had shared that with me at one point. I don't remember it, supposedly I didn't like it, but now I will. I like it. It's so good. This song is so good, and it's not in the movie. Now, if I were to interview the director, he may say that there may have been an issue with licensing, so maybe the group was willing to do it for the trailer, but maybe they just didn't give permission to do the movie. But gosh, you know, I think there could almost be a whole genre of like recuts of movies. Remember the Superman 2 where they did the Richard Dada version, the recut version? I would like to see this movie recut with the sound of silence in it by disturbed, and then have that be the song, this present, when he goes to the gallows and experiences the power of forgiveness and redemption of being associated with Christ. Oh my gosh, I get so much chills. It's not in the movie though, I hate you, spoiler, but it is not in the movie. So even though I strongly advise you to listen to the trailer, so you can experience what I've experienced, the song is not in the movie, and that was a little bit difficult. The other thing that I think is not really done in the movie, and it may just be because it's one of those things with the movie you only have so much time, you know, you can't do a four-hour movie. And so I think it just was on the cutting room floor, or for whatever reason in the script, they just didn't feel it necessary, but it doesn't really explain how biohofer was tangibly connected to the Valkyrie plot that was performed by Taos von Staukenberg, the famous Nazi who tried to kill Adolf Hitler, it doesn't really explain that. It does share how they were able to do a failed assassination attempt with Hitler, but so that part isn't really explored in great depth. And so that's one thing I didn't necessarily. I thought I thought who would have been improved, and who knows why. You know, I saw that this over in Narky was the writer, director, and producer, and sometimes when you do all three cats, you don't really have another voice in the room to kind of tell you, like, hey, did they amplify this part, you need to change this part. So my guess is he was probably just doing too many different things, and had he listened to someone else, I think it could have been sharpened from a really good movie to maybe one of the best movies of the last 25 years. I mean, it really had the potential to be a transformatively good movie, but I didn't think it quite got there, but it's still really good, and I totally hope you get the chance to do this. The other interesting thing, and I think just kind of a threat, I think for you to all explore, which I kind of push back a little bit on, I can climb up a little bit on this, but I think it does happen with some people that get so immersed in their face that they kind of forget what it is all about, and I can see how they get there, but maybe it's my own sin to kind of reject this point of view, but it is this question of how far would you actually go to further and establish and what acts are you willing to do in order to further your identity as a Christian, as a follower of Christ? That is a big question. Bonhoeffer wrote this book in the cost of discipleship in 1937 outlining this precise question and trying to explore this, and I did warn of this book, and I will do a follow-up on this, but in this book, the key kind of message that comes out to it gives this concept of what Bonhoeffer calls is, is cheat race, and I totally know where he's coming from on it, so I was able to get a quote from the book in terms of what Bonhoeffer means by the concept of cheat grace, and why, given that book, when he returned to New York in 1939, you can just see why he knew he had to go back to Germany in order to face whatever followed in the Third Reich, and here, Bob Hoffery defines cheat grace as follows, cheat grace, grace, according to Bonhoeffer, is the grace we bestow unto ourselves, graced without discipleship. Postly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl must be asked for, the door at which a man must know. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life, and so I think what he's getting into is that, and I know where he's going with this, I think one of the interesting and I think most difficult parts of Christianity, and I think why some people rebel against it, is that you see people that go, and I love going, because it's like being close to the fire, the fire, the light, the Lord is the host of hosts, the true God of true God, is that there's so much light and happiness that's just Afro-Vassa that surrounds any good church. And a lot of people go to church because they consider themselves good people, right? They consider themselves, yeah, they acknowledge that they confess their sins, but they kind of go and they kind of feel good about themselves, and they kind of bestow upon themselves a kind of virtue that is kind of antithetical to Jesus, right? I mean, in other words, yes, you go because you want to be clean cleansed of your sins, and you go because you consider yourself a good person, and yes, you go because you want to be surrounded with good people, but is that the only aspect of being a Christian is simply to go and go to church? No. And I think if you look at the teachings of Jesus is that yes, he had times where he preached, but he also went out and hung out amongst the sinners, went into the then drug and gambling dens of the day, hung out with prostitutes, cherished the tax collector, addressed the dispossessed, he actually lived out his holy purpose, and when asked and tasked with going up against the Roman church, or the not Roman church, but the Roman judge, Pontius Pilate, he was willing to literally take the cross and to die because that was that was the ultimate cause, the ultimate sacrifice that he bore for us, and it gets into this concept. You know, I don't know the word in Greek, there has to be a word for it. I know there's a whole bunch of different words for love in Greek, and so for those of you who know those, let me know. But there's something called sacrificial love, I don't know if there's a word in Greek for it, but you know, there's a gape love where you get without expecting anything in return. There's obviously erotic love, which is sexual love that's very intense and emotional. You have Billius love, which Billia, I think, which is the love of your brother, like friendship love. There's all different sorts of love, but what about that type of love that you're in, you're with you, you love something so much that you really need to sacrifice for it, most of us would sacrifice for a child, right, that we would give up our lives so that our child could live. And I think C.S. Lewis gets that a lot in his work on mere Christianity and through the character of Aslan. Aslan loved his block so much that he was willing to die and sacrifice himself for the love of all. And this morning I experienced a minor moment, I ranked moments of synchronicity and I experienced another moment of synchronicity. Oh, this is kind of my own brain making the synchronicity. Sometimes synchronicity is so powerful that you don't even, you just know it's like something greater is happy, but I admit this is a minor synchronicity moment that I'm kind of reaching, but it's still synchronicity. First of all, those of you who don't know what is synchronicity, synchronicity is kind of this concept of this moment of inspired, sacred coincidence, that's not really a coincidence, it comes out of the work of Carl, where you experience something like you read a Bible verse and then something that happens in very close proximity to it that is like right like that Bible verse. So I was reading my daily devotional, Ruben Youngdahl this morning and I came across the Bible verse of John 1224 and I got to tell you, this Bible verse is absolutely perfect for a Deetric Bonhoeffer because Deetric Bonhoeffer obviously knew that when he went back to Germany, he was taking up the cross. He was voluntarily sacrificing himself much in the same way that Jesus did, to take up and bear that cross for the betterment of humankind. He knew ultimately that he would probably be on the Gallo. He at the very least knew that he was facing a significant amount of rest to get there. And so if you're reading the Bible, and he obviously was a Bible student, listen to what John 1224 had said in my Ruben Youngdahl passage just today, I just learned about this Bible verse that said, "Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed, but if it dies, it produces many seeds." Bonhoeffer gets into that a little bit in terms of this concept of true life, is that in sacrificing yourself, you are communing and entering delight. And it's your sacrifice, which the death, which produces the many seeds, and you think about Bonhoeffer, the question for him is, what have he been the same person without actually dying on the cross? I mean, he didn't die on the cross, but he died at the Gallos as if Christ's like act, and he did it because of his study of the Bible, and he knew that ultimately he would have to engage in the sacrificial love, not only for the German people, but for the Jewish people, who he knew he needed to speak out to try to save them, and all of those people who had been exterminated. And it is one of those great questions, what kind of life would have he had, had he not died a martyr for the German people, but also a martyr for the Christian faith, and the Jewish faith, the fact that he died out of his beliefs. For the greater good. And I would argue that if you look at this Bible verse, this isn't very much of a sacred act, where he didn't commit suicide, but he surrendered his life knowingly out of grace and love to Jesus, such that his death would bring life to so many other people. And that if you look at the book of like Eric Bataxus and all of those of us who love Bonhoeffer and the work that he did, he did not live a cheap grace, if it was real grace. And that act of sacrifice is still yielding fruit. That seed that lied in his own death still is bearing fruit that allows us to experience the power and commitment of his words. And so I think there's really, and I'll get to the word that English needs, and I'm going to throw a lie on a, on a Jewish word, the Jewish has a lot of, the Hebrew has a lot of words that we don't have in English. And I think I'm going to write a whole book on words that the English language needs. But probably what one word embodies Bonhoeffer more than almost any other word, and I think that is courage, courage to stand out and speak out your beliefs. And that means a willingness to sacrifice. Now none of us know whether we would have the courage to face death out of our beliefs or whether we would be like Peter and deny Jesus upon being asked. One of the reasons why I finally have come out publicly on Donald Trump is on a courage. I have to admit, for the longest time, I did vote for him in 2020. I did not publicly admit it until last year that I was a Trump supporter. And I have to admit it was not because I was courageous, but because I was cowardly. I was, and I hadn't read Bonhoeffer. That's not what got me to kind of come out and say, yes, publicly stand behind the forces of good and lightness that I do believe that Donald Trump embodies and people like Pete Hegsa embody because I believe that he represents the forces of good, light, and decency. And yes, he's an incredibly flawed person. I believe God fools people who are incredibly flawed and sinful people. You'd have to ask God as to why that's the case, but that's clearly the case in the person of Donald Trump. And I think of, for example, courage. Courage is something that Bonhoeffer represented. And I think of my own undergraduate institution, Luther College, Luther College, they don't even have the courage to put Christianity in their mission statement. And I think that's cowardly, and I'm going to call them out on it privately. But I am going to, it has to be in there, and it has to be part of its mission. And that is, I think, cheap grace to deny the presence of Christianity with so many people gave their life to make that part of what it is today. So hope you get the chance to see this particular movie just so good. And I want to see if you experience the motion that I experience, and I'm going to get to my word in conclusion. The word many points throughout the movie, I was so inspired, I got teary. I got teary-eyed. I call it inspired, Brian, and it got me to thinking, is there a word in English, or you're so inspired at something, you're so inspired by what you see that you burst out in joyful crying, tears of joy, like what word is that? As far as I can tell, there's no word in the English language for crying when you're so happy that you cry, and there should be. I remember one of the, my first distinct acts of really inspired crying was the end of Shawshank Redemption, spoiler alert if you haven't seen it, but at the end of the movie where Andy Dufresne meets Wren and he made it out of prison, and they go together to zoo one day out, burst out in tears, I was so joyful that Andy had escaped and was able to share the rest of his life with Red. I was inspired crying, and it occurred to me today, there's no word for that. There's no word in the English language for being so inspired that you cry, well there should be. I looked up it on AI, and they said the closest word is cathartic, now cathartic is kind of emotional release, so I suppose when you have a degree of cathartic emotion, as part of that cathartic emotion, you may decide to cry, but you don't necessarily app do, but there has to be a word for joyful crying. I did look up, evidently there's a word in it, I don't know if it's Yiddish or Hebrew, you know Yiddish is kind of Hebrew with some German elements in it, it's called kavelin. So and kavelin, I'm not sure whether it's inspired crying, but it's basically the emotion that you feel when you just burst out and joy that you're so happy that you engaged in kavelin. So I don't know if that's really the right word, but I just, if you guys know of a word that is for inspired crying, let me know because if not, I'm going to make, I'm going to have a book of new words that we need that don't exist. There's several new words that the English language needs and that we don't have, like we don't have a word for the opposite of sin. Sorry, we don't, there's no word for that. It would be like a good spiritual habit, but there's no word for it. So I'm going to probably make up some words and then write a book on it at some point. Maybe you all could too, but you don't know which words that I think the English language is. So you can't steal that idea. In any event, this book, this movie was very, very good. And I'm definitely going to read Bonhoeffer's, I'm going to reread Bonhoeffer's biography by Eric Mataxis. I'm definitely going to read the cost of discipleship. I hope you get the opportunity to read it yourself. I'll put links in the show notes. I hope you found this particular episode good. If you did share it with your friends, your family, your mom, your dog, your dog would probably get some really, really good insight on this. Because I think if you're cute, atheist friends, religious friends, whoever needs to see this and just needs to experience the power of this movie because it really was very well done. And I think our task, one kind of simple, it's not really cheap grace, but one active grace that I think we can give to these positive movie studios to support them financially. I mean, so consider it, you know, if you don't want to spend, just consider it, you're tired, even though you're spending more money than you otherwise have to spend. By watching it, we'll consider it part of your dining, that you're actually supporting these very positive movie studios that are doing really good work, like Sound of Freedom, like Bonhoeffer, and there was a whole bunch of other really good movies in the trailers that I wanted to see as well. So it's so good to see so many forces of positivity that are out there, sources of light. There are the forces of darkness though, too, so I think it's coming upon all of us to carry our own light with us and to be beacons for others. So that's it for this episode of The Racking Cast. If you have any feedback, reach out to me at rackingcast@gmail.com or rackingpool@gmail.com. Let's continue to spread the good news of what we're trying to achieve. And thank you so much for each and every one of you that tuned in to The Racking Cast. Until next time, you and I see each other on The Racking Cast.