Article July 8, 2002 Issue

spiritual perspective on movies

The Sum of All Fears

By Hugo Smoter

The plot of the summer movie The Sum of All Fears, starring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman, has an uncanny similarity to recent news stories. The movie centers on two CIA agents who try to stop the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Baltimore, Maryland. The arrest last month of a suspected terrorist who purportedly had plans to detonate a so-called "dirty bomb" in Washington, D.C., makes scenes of nuclear devastation on the big screen uncomfortably threatening.

Even in the face of nuclear confrontation, we can trust in the omnipotence of God to sustain us—individually and as nations.

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