Inflight Listening

Unites Airlines seems decidedly downmarket compared with say Arab Emirates - perhaps a sign of the shift of global economic power. It was difficult to actually use the inflight film facility though I did manage to peer at the tiny angled screen and see enough of 'The Tree of Life' to see that this is an unusual and ambitious film seeking to engage creatively with the origins and meaning of life. I suppose it couldn't avoid sounding a bit twee at times but then since I was clasping the earphones to my ears to drown out the engine noise I wasn't really in a very good position to assess what I was hearing or indeed seeing. Afterwards I listened to talks I'd recorded given by Bishop Mark MacDonald at the 75th Qu'Appelle synod. He spoke of how native people perceive God's revelation in ways which are indirect, dreamlike, fragmentary and which unveil the reality which is there all the time. He showed how for indigenous peoples cosmology, theology, geography and spirituality are one and the same. Exciting times ahead.........