Forecast (Ep 14): Spoilers Ahead

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Josh explores eschatology in the films Tenet and Interstellar and how the films point to the Christian hope of God's future breaking into the present. This is followed by an opinion article about climate change, an instrumental piece by Scott Stevens and two poems by Rosemary Power and Gerard Manley Hopkins that cherish the natural world.

Outline of today's Forecast, including links

• 00:00 – Introduction and eschatology in Tenet and Interstellar
• 18:30 – An opinion article about climate change by Josh Seligman
• 25:49 – ‘Dawn Will Prevail’, music by Scott Stevens
• 29:16 – ‘In the time of Covid-19’ poem by Rosemary Power
• 31:18 – ‘God’s Grandeur’ poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins​

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Quotes from today's Forecast

The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe ('good catastrophe') of Man’s history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy. It has pre-eminently the “inner consistency of reality.” There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. To reject it leads either to sadness or to wrath. -- J R R Tolkien

Sometimes we have no words, sometimes we do not know how to act wisely, but we can always ask God to come and be present. And we shall see how often the atmosphere changes, quarrels stop, peace comes. This is not a minor mode of intercession, although it is less spectacular than a great sacrifice. We see in it again how contemplation and action are inseparable, that Christian action is impossible without contemplation. We see also how such contemplation is not a vision of God alone, but a deep vision of everything enabling us to see its eternal meaning. Contemplation is a vision not of God alone, but of the world in God. -- Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

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Josh Seligman is the founding editor of Foreshadow and a co-host of its podcast Forecast.