Dethroning Our Idols
This will come as no surprise to my congregation, but my wife and I have been obsessed with Hamilton on Disney+. We’ve watched it numerous times; sometimes with friends and sometimes just the two of us. We canceled our subscription so that we can move on. Have you seen it? It is historically accurate and terrific entertainment, to be sure. And the film director did an incredible job catching closeups and angles that transcend even the theater-goer’s experience. But beyond its entertainment value, the musical has multiple layers of meaning. For my wife and I, that is the reason we watched it so many times. It kept unfolding like a beautiful flower to reveal new insights and surprises each time we viewed it. Most satisfying to us, it is a story of redemption. Alexander Hamilton was born an illegitimate child on an island in the Caribbean. He was orphaned when his mother died and raised by a prosperous ...