We Can Laugh A Little

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; therefore He has anointed me. He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives”
Luke 4:18

There appeared in the “Arts and Leisure” section of the “New York Times,” a lengthy article on the growing “signs of a new spirituality in the arts.” The article speaks of the “religious essence” of Director Stanley Kramer’s film, “The Runner Stumbles.” Mr. Kramer himself describes the film as “an examination of commitment.” He says, “I took the strongest commitment I could think of-a priest’s and a nun’s devotion to God-in a day when there is so little commitment, whether to an ideal, to a way of…