It's been said on this blog before, but I must say it again - the Late at the Museum series really is one of the best ways you can spend a Thursday evening once a month and I encourage you to organise a babysittter, or simply overcome the strong pull of a warm lounge in the winter months and get along - you'll feel enriched for the effort.
So, Wrath... Anger, is it really a sin? is there such a thing as good wrath?
The panel discussion is an anchor and the main attraction to the Late sessions. The panel discussion on Wrath was lead by Finlay McDonald with Ruia Aperahama, Dr Janet Fanslow and Professor (Emeritus) Michael Corballis as the panel. If you are a regular reader of this blog - you'll be familiar with the fact that we have been regularly confronted this year by aging punk rockers, academics and theologians who have reminded us time and again that humanity sits on a precipice and decisions we make now have a real impact on the future of the planet and its people.
To confront the biggest issues of our age - we need to be less apathetic - perhaps we need to be more angry? Robert Reich suggests we need to go beyond outrage to address the big issues of our time. So, there's a place for anger? or is it a sin to avoid. Maybe wrath and anger are traits we need to channel for good.
Like other blog posts we have written this year - I found this a discussion that had aspects of shame about the community we live in, the importance of being angry along with reasons for us to continue the work the panelists are so committed to.
After the discussion, there's time to wander through the Museum (which is truly spectacular after dark) to various galleries where musicians, more Shakespeare and the regular exhibits are waiting to be discovered. I feel like I say this each time we blog about Late but it sure beats the obvious choice of the movies for an evening out and its well worth your effort.
Pride is the next sin in the Late series and is (perhaps appropriately) on the 5th of July.