The Truman Show & the Cracks in Our Reality

Let’s take stock of the challenge once again: the work of spiritual transformation, by which we come to live in God in the midst of our neighborhood, is the most difficult process in the universe. This is not an overstatement. After all, it required the death of the Son of God to accomplish it. To live in the reordered reality of life in God is to have an entirely different perspective about everything. Life is turned right side up, even though it will often feel like the opposite.

The radical force of this reorientation is captured in the closing scenes of the movie The Truman Show,…