“The premise of telling the story was through the lens of Franklin’s life in the church”, says the director of the film.
The shooting of the story of Father Stuart, a boxer turned Catholic priest, has started. Wahlberg has been working on the project for six years.
We are not here forever. Ageing makes us face up to our mortality. It tells us about more than just the “vanity” of life.
The story is based on the director's childhood memories of his Christian Korean-American family in Arkansas during the 1980s. “I hope it offers some kind of hope after everything that’s happened this year”, says Lee Isaac Chung.
The investment in the American faith-based streaming platform shows the weight of Christian consumers as a niche market.
The British actress speaks about her relationship with the Word: “It brings your mind back into alignment of what God wants you to be”.
Some of these characters, and their stories, can be helpful in raising awareness and in some cases acceptance of additional needs and disability.
Michael B. Jordan will play thet role of the biblical character. Warner Bros expects to turn the film into a franchise.
A festival in Barcelona airs a documentary about religious persecution in China. It tells the sad story of Sun Yi, one of the inmates of the Masanjia labour and re-education camp.
In “Loud Krazy Love”, the Korn guitarist speaks about his strong Christian faith, the relationship with his daughter Jennea and the new life after leaving drug addictions behind.
The cinema shows many examples of viruses that affect humans, producing devastating epidemics that remind us of our fragility and vulnerability.
A review of the films “Richard Jewell” and “An Officer and a Spy”.
A strong theme through the film is Auggie coming to terms with the reactions of others to his disability, but at the beginning really struggling to do so.
Journalist and theologian José de Segovia reflects on the evolution of culture in the last decade, how it has affected evangelical Christians, and what new challenges they face.
In the winner of the last Golden Globes, “1917”, Sam Mendes draws on his grandfather’s experience of the First World War.
True stories about a slave turned abolitionist; a pastor who impacted US society; and one mother’s strong love and faith in the face of impossible odds.
Many Disney movies mix Judaeo-Christian teaching with other religious elements and spirituality and then ‘put some magic on top’ as the final solution for making your dreams come true.
Todd Philipps' film is an adult exploration of the anatomy of evil, closer to a Kafkaesque tragedy or to Dostoyevsky’s novels than to the children’s universe of comic book superheroes.
Many crime fictions happen in the past, as if by looking back, we find a way of diagnosing the traumas of the present.
Grace, beauty, creation and the longing to connect with God are some of the themes that run through the director’s latest films.
The main thing that J.R.R. Tolkien inherited from his mother was the Roman Catholic faith. With the help of a priest, he was able to gain access to higher education.
The documentary tells the murder of nine members of Emanuel church in Charleston in 2015 and how survivors and families forgave the shooter. “Forgiveness comes from the Cross”, says filmmaker Brian Ivie.
The Ecumenical Jury of the Cannes Film Festival awarded Terrence Malick's film. “The film expresses and explores the difficult challenges to the integrity of the human person in the face of great evil”, it said.
Books, series and films have left us with striking testimonies of those who, while representing Christianity, wonder where their faith is. An article about three of the most acclaimed stories of 2018.
The life of evangelical churches and their spiritual leaders has been portrayed in some recent films and series. Can they help us start conversations?
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