A lot of people know that Denzel Washington is a Christian, and he's never been particularly shy about it. And Dillard University is at least nominally a Christian college, so it's not as if Denzel brought this message to Harvard. Now that would have been controversial (Harvard's origins as a Christian seminary notwithstanding). But what I love about this address is not just that a celebrity associated with secular art delivered it. It's the unusually excellent substance of what he said, crammed into 11 minutes at that: