Martin Scorsese’s Silence is an incredible film, no matter how you look at it. It is beautifully made and strives for authenticity, historically and spiritually. It is a film that takes faith seriously, and understands the tensions therein, the doubts, the testing, and ultimately the presence of the divine. The story is challenging and leaves its audience to uncomfortably wrestle over the events depicted, struggling to interpret what has been witnessed. In the midst of this wrestling, we find that we are slowly being stretched and that the film has the ability to do something to us; to bring us to an even deeper understanding of who we are and who God is.

To break the film open in even greater detail, we have invited two of our best writers to offer their reflections on this magnificent film.

Read Entering The Heart of Silence by Mary Joseph

Tomasz Juszczak’s Reflection Coming Soon…