RANDY ELROD

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  • Five Gods Before Me And Now Only One

    Yes, I have violated one (okay, almost all) of the ten commandments. As I’ve grown older, my relationship with gods has become more complex. Count them up, and it looks like promiscuity. Five gods in sixty-eight years, each one demanding worship, each one eventually abandoned. I used to be embarrassed by the list. Now I…

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  • 68. Am I Middle-Aged?

    I turned 68 this year, and as I read a fascinating article in The Atlantic this week, the question hit me: am I still middle-aged? The instinct is to laugh it off. Sixty-eight sounds like a number that should settle the matter. But I’ve spent twenty years building a framework I call The Quest, My Theory of Being, that…

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  • The Odyssey: Imagination as Survival

    Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opened last week to $124.5 million domestically. It was the biggest live-action debut of the year, the best global launch of Nolan’s career, and a 95% on the Tomatometer. It is about a king who takes ten years to sail home from a war. The whole thing was shot entirely on IMAX cameras,…

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