Shusaku Endo
Silence, Suffering, and Speechless Love
What I can no longer deny is that I am Judas.
Jesus Came to Save (Even) Leslie Charping
Here’s something of a revised obituary, brought to us by Ben Maddison. There is a train […]
Suffering, Love, and the Sounds of Silence
The camera hovers over a swelling sea, looking down, and a boat glides from the […]
Martin Scorsese Explains That God Is Always Present, Even in His Silence
If you’re eager for the release of Silence, Martin Scorsese’s adaption of the classic novel by Shūsaku Endō, […]
No Such Glorious Thing: Martyrdom and the God of Silence
This post was written by Cort Gatliff. One afternoon when I was in elementary school, […]
The Christ of Silence, Part Three: Gospel Swampland and the Roots that Cannot Be Cut
Here concludes our mini-series on Shusaku Endo’s Silence. For Part One and Part Two, click […]
The Christ of Silence, Part Two: Kichijiro (Or The Judas Everyman)
As we continue our look into Shusaku Endo’s 1969 classic novel, Silence, we take a […]
The Christ of Silence, Part One: Prayer and the Folded Arms of God
Here launches a three-part, week-long miniseries on Shusaku Endo’s eminent novel, Silence, about a Portuguese […]








