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Podcast: New Books in Catholic Studies
Episode: The Silence of God: The Meaning of Our Suffering and Redemption
Description: Makoto Fujimura, world-famous contemporary painter with global cultural influence, talks about his art, his thinking and writing about ShÅ«saku EndÅ's novelĀ SilenceĀ (1966), and his work on Martin Scorsese's filmĀ SilenceĀ (2016). I ask him about Scorseseās long collaborative friendship with Akira Kurosawa and his participation in KurosawaāsĀ DreamsĀ (1990).Mako also describes his work with his wife, Haejin Shim Fujimura, for Embers International and Kintsugi Academy, protecting and serving women and children in the brothels of Mumbai who are in danger of exploitation and trafficking.Both in the lives of the suffering poor and in the t...