Winter Light

As we enter spring...

[Pastor Ericsson prepares to distribute communion]

I saw Winter Light the first time somewhere in the ‘90s. I was an atheist at the time, and I read the film as a muscular statement about the death of God and the need to move on from all that airy fairy religious puffery.

After seeing it again, it is clear to me that youthful reading was too neat. The fil…