{"id":1061,"date":"2008-01-30T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/beliefnet-nominates-2007s-best-spiritual-films\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T17:11:00","slug":"beliefnet-nominates-2007s-best-spiritual-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/beliefnet-nominates-2007s-best-spiritual-films.html","title":{"rendered":"Beliefnet nominates 2007&#8217;s best &#8220;spiritual&#8221; films"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/bfa\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Beliefnet<\/a> has announced the nominees for its own annual movie awards, and this year, I\u2019m one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/229\/story_22915_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">the judges<\/a>.  There are three categories \u2014 Best Spiritual Film, Best Spiritual Performance and Best Spiritual Documentary \u2014 and there are five nominees in each category, and each of the nominees is accompanied by an argument \u201cfor\u201d and \u201cagainst\u201d the film in question.  It fell to me to write the argument \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/229\/story_22911_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">against<\/a>\u201d Sarah Polley\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/newsbites-trek-genies-bush-cleanflicks.html#2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Away from Her<\/a><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beliefnet has announced the nominees for its own annual movie awards, and this year, I\u2019m one of the judges. There are three categories \u2014 Best Spiritual Film, Best Spiritual Performance and Best Spiritual Documentary \u2014 and there are five nominees in each category, and each of the nominees is accompanied by an argument \u201cfor\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beliefnet nominates 2007&#039;s best &quot;spiritual&quot; films<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Beliefnet has announced the nominees for its own annual movie awards, and this year, I&#039;m one of the judges. 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