Can we rediscover our purpose, or are we simply waiting for the barbarians to take us? Are we stuck in Necropolis? They finish up on a conversation about the prophetic role of the church ...

where he wrote “Waiting for the Barbarians” when he was in his 30s. His was a time of ascending and crumbling empires, colonization, treaties made and treaties broken. Here is a synopsis of ...

Director Ciro Guerra’s Waiting for the Barbarians would seem a perfect parable for this moment. Like the 1980 J.M.Coetzee novel it is based on, the film is set in an imperial everywhere.