![]() ![]() I talked with stars Greg Kinnear (who played Todd Burpo) and Thomas Haden Church (Jay), as well as with the director, producer and screenwriter. I was in Hollywood, attending a press screening of the movie before the official release date. Colton’s stories about sitting on Jesus’ lap, about meeting his great-grandfather “Pop” and his sister who had died before birth, about seeing angels and appreciating heaven’s indescribably rich color pallette, gradually came to light as he talked with his parents after recovering from surgery. That’s a little like how I felt a few weeks ago when I interviewed Todd, Sonja and Colton Burpo, the real-life family whose story is recounted in the movie “Heaven Is For Real.” Colton is the child who, at the age of three, nearly died and who visited heaven while he was in surgery. ![]() I mean, you’re telling me there are other things that happened–other miracles, other healings, other resurrections, other multiplications of loaves and fishes–which the evangelist saw, but which he doesn’t tell us about? ![]() ![]() SAY WHAT?! I’ve always found that single sentence in the Gospel of John, which was read this morning at Mass, to be one of the most compelling. Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book. ![]()
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