Universal Family

Werner Herzog's film Huie's Predigt (Huie's Sermon)--the film is really in English with a few German subtitles) presents a worship service in an urban black church. The sermon which asserts over and over that God is in control--which seems to be refuted by images of the utter bleakness of a trashed out slum. A reflection on what it means for God to be in control accounts for the success of the sermon in its hearers.