{"id":23151,"date":"2014-04-21T07:29:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T11:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=23151"},"modified":"2014-04-21T07:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T11:29:15","slug":"saving-mr-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/04\/saving-mr-banks.html","title":{"rendered":"Saving Mr. Banks"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23156\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/04\/Saving-Mr.-Banks-quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\"><\/p>\n<p>I recently saw the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00IK6GX9S\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00IK6GX9S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Saving Mr. Banks<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00IK6GX9S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">. It was very enjoyable, and at times profoundly moving. I appreciated the words that were attributed to Walt Disney, about the role of those who tell stories in not merely preserving memories but recasting the world: \u201cThat\u2019s what we storytellers do, we restore order through imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of related interest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2014\/04\/20\/the-character-missing-from-all-disney-movies-god\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Hemant Mehta blogged about the lack of mention of God in Disney films<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00IK6GX9S\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00IK6GX9S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B00IK6GX9S&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00IK6GX9S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw the movie Saving Mr. Banks. 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