It’s called “All or Nothing”. I ran across this Henrik Ibsen play. I admit, rather ashamed, that I never read anything by Henrik Ibsen, though he wrote very famously, “A Doll’s House” and “Hedda Gabler”. But I found this play while reading about a television show called “The Prisoner” with Patrick McGoohan. It’s all rather convoluted, really, but a fortuitous convolution. I love Patrick McGoohan, the actor. And his way of being in the world, uncompromising, it appears, I found intriguing. Turns out he did the Ibsen play I ran across, called “Brand” on TV back in 1959. It’s about an uncompromising minister/priest who demands of himself and others a very “all or nothing” way of following God.
And it raises all sorts of ideas and complexities for the Ordinary Catholic. Take a listen. You can find it on podbean or pretty much all the platforms, like Amazon and Tune In.
There will be a second part next week.
Ordinary Old Catholic Me 