By Joe LaGuardia Watching Rocky was a family affair growing up in the LaGuardia household. Not only did we watch every Rocky movie as a family, we literally saw our family in the series reflected back to us. There was Rocky, a metaphoric character for my father. He, like Rocky, lacked certain social graces andContinue reading “Faith and Film (prt. 3): Rocky”
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Faith and Film (prt. 2): The Mission
By Joe LaGuardia When I was in high school, my sister Gina and brother-in-law Frank invited me to join them for dinner in Manhattan with one of Frank’s clients. Frank was a personal trainer and this client had meant a great deal to him; the client, a Jesuit priest whose name I’ve since lost, hadContinue reading “Faith and Film (prt. 2): The Mission”
Baptist Spirituality 