A movie that pretty much everyone who goes to church will have heard of is Amazing Grace.
It’s the story of William Wilberforce’s attempts to have slavery abolished in the United Kingdom.
I saw it on Wednesday with my church young adults group and it was quite moving. I could just imagine a tenth of the cinema going “I will be the next Wilberforce” or something to that effect. Lo and behold, within two minutes of exiting someone had grabbed me (literally) and tried to recruit me into his (rather ambiguous) vision.
I mentioned this to a good friend and he said that it really challenged him to think of all the unsolved problems in our generation.
For mine this was Aborigines. In fifty years, a hundred years time we will look back upon ourselves with shame. Just as we cannot believe it took until 1967 to give Aboriginals some of their basic human rights, we will look back and wonder how they were allowed to have a life expectancy 20 years behind that of the rest of us….
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