Living as Creatures

Living as Creatures

Martin Shaw Has a Story You Need to Hear

Liturgies of the Wild offers healing myths to a story-sick culture

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Ben Christenson
Feb 03, 2026
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Matt Damon’s new film The Rip recently debuted on Netflix, and he was describing how in the old days, you’d save your biggest action sequence for the climactic third act, but now Netflix execs are asking, “Can we get a big one in the first five minutes? We want people to stay tuned in. And it wouldn’t be terrible if you reiterated the plot three or four…

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