I just finished watching the movie Amazing Grace. It was quite good, although I did get a little sleepy at times. There was a tremendous amount of dialog and next to no scenes of just how the slave-traders treated the slaves or what they went through. I suppose this gentle quality needs to be restored amongst Hollywood, though. Psychological/spiritual impact can hit us in a number of ways, and that it does in this movie. The movie does elude to the Church and even shows one scene of a pastor preaching on the issue of slave-trade, but the travesty of the African slave-trade certainly could have been emphasized more.

It’s hard to even tell that Wilberforce was an Anglican, unless one knows a thing or two about Anglicanism and her history…it just was not emphasized. Anglicanism, not only has a history of rich Worship, but it also has a history of rich ethics. Amazing Grace does a fine job on demonstrating this!  So…okay, it did a great job in demonstrating Anglicanism, but I was hoping the flag would be waiving high, that’s all. Rent or buy this movie and never forget that the American Union was not the first to notice the brutality of African slave-trade.