[Institutional v. Missional Church: Structure will post at noon today.] Relating to the previous quote, “Institutionalized,” the protagonist, Andy Dufresne had just joined his friends at lunch after two weeks in the hole.  He was sent to the hole for playing Mozart over the prison public address system.  He is trying to explain the power [...]

Midway through “The Shawshank Redemption” Red, speaking to fellow cons on the yard about the meltdown of longtime inmate Brooks, who had received parole after 50 years inside the prison. “Brooks ain’t no bug.  He’s just… he’s just institutionalized.” “The man’s been in here fifty years, Haywood.  Fifty years.  This is all he knows.  In [...]

With deference to the prolific memorable dialog from Doc Holiday in Tombstone, I have a new movie quote from a movie not widely viewed, but which I have come to enjoy. The movie is “Stranger Than Fiction” and it follows IRS agent Harold Crick as he begins to hear the narration of his life by [...]