Sacred and the Screen: The Tree of Life

In this week’s Sacred and the Screen, we explore Psalm 8 alongside Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. Beneath a sky full of stars, the psalmist wonders why the God who made the cosmos would care about us at all. The film asks a similar question through one family’s experience of beauty, suffering, love, and loss. Together, Psalm 8, Job, Hebrews 2, and the story of Jesus lead us to a simple but profound hope: God is with us, and this is not the end. Even in a world marked by grief, we are invited to walk the way of grace, trusting that resurrection has the final word.