Users
What if the entire population of a given place was made up of artists? Marfa, Texas is a place where you can find out.
Playing With Sharks
What if the entire population of a given place was made up of artists? Marfa, Texas is a place where you can find out.
Land
Land is an unhurried look at grief, isolation, and how a full (and therefore healing) experience of lament often requires the bonds of community.
My Name Is Pauli Murray
The documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray introduces us to the activist and spiritual leader the world forgot.
Summer of Soul
Through footage that has never been seen before—and that sat in a basement for 50 years—this documentary gives visibility to the healing and radicalizing gift the festival brought to the neighborhoods of Harlem.
CODA
CODA is a film you can gather a family or small group around. It could provide a conversation starter and beginning guide to understanding disability and opening the doors of the church to everyone.
Bad Hair
The real demon in Bad Hair the normative standard of white beauty. When you scream, whether you realize it or not, you’re screaming at the horrors of white supremacy.The real demon in Bad Hair is the normative standard of white beauty. When you scream, whether you realize it or not, you’re screaming at the horrors of white supremacy.
1. Encountering God
Some students recounted how within the film-viewing experience, they had met God. A student in his early sixties, to give but one example, is presently a pastor of an alternative style communal church in Southern California. He has graying hair pulled back in a ponytail.
3. Better Understanding Christian Truth
For a third group, they believed that what one can learn from general revelation was dependent on what first had been revealed to them through special revelation. Given our sin, we are incapable of knowing God apart from Christ. But for Christians, movies can deepen, even radicalize, our understanding of the faith.
Conclusion
Can reel spirituality become a real spirituality? Clearly it can. But what that means varies, depending both on the movie experienced and on the theological understanding that one brings to the viewing. It also depends on the mysterious presence of the Spirit who, like the wind, “blows wherever it pleases” (John 3:8).
