We don't worry about the poor conditions or unjust sentences or institutional mistreatment that inmates might endure, because - if we're honest - we think they deserve such things.īut unlike most of us, Schultz has extensive experience with prison, having worked in one for many years. Those of us who have never been in a prison, either as an inmate, visitor or worker, don't usually spare a thought for what goes on inside one, notes Valerie Schultz. Sadly, 'Star Wars' series 'Andor' gets prison right Rather, he looks to the future, full of possibilities - redemption, hope, learning - and makes himself available to the needs therein.'Īs another great Jedi master would say: 'Always in motion is the future.' And so long as that motion continues, so long as it's not paralyzed by grief and shame, there is hope for change and growth and life. Obi-Wan is no longer trapped by a past that cannot change. 'He no longer obsesses over fixing them, atoning for them. 'His past failures remain the same, but he is no longer governed by them,' Eric Clayton points out. 'We enter into the mystery of suffering and loss and hope and meaning with one another,' Clayton writes, 'knowing that we will never get all the answers, and yet trusting that the journey of sharing and carrying one another's stories is worth the effort.' And in that mystery, we come to know more of who God is - and more of who we ourselves are as a result. It shouldn't be, at least.įaith demands that we enter into the mystery we don't watch helpless on the sidelines. Mystery fascinates us, but it isn't a static character trait. Mystery is either an invitation to know more or a tactic to avoid intimacy, writes Eric Clayton, who points out that this is as true for the iconic character Boba Fett as it is for real life. What can 'The Book of Boba Fett' teach Catholics about mystery and intimacy? 'The institution may have failed her,' writes Vosters, 'but the Source has not, and she knows it.' 2. But the wise, wounded woman on the margins survives to live out the truest tenets of the Jedi: selflessness, courage, compassion, balance and peace.

We never see Ahsoka reconcile with the Jedi in 'The Clone Wars' - in fact, the Jedi Order collapses.

Vosters was witnessing a spiritual journey that felt a lot like her own. Ultimately, the young Jedi found herself forced to choose between her own beliefs and the very community that taught her.

The Jedi leaders whom Ahsoka had trusted failed to preserve the core principles of their creed and instead allied with the powerful. While watching 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars,' Jennifer Vosters found herself shocked to see in the depiction of fan-favorite character, Ahsoka Tano, an all-too-familiar deconstruction unfolding onscreen: A young woman realizing that the institution she loved did not love her back. In an age of institutional failure, 'Star Wars' is saving my faith

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