Pastor Matthew Cork of Yorba Linda Friends Church in California says its ministry includes producing a feature film “that has a cause and a mission behind it.” More →

February 25, 2011

Three expert movie-watchers discuss the moral, ethical, religious, and spiritual themes they saw in some of this year’s Oscar nominees. More →

February 25, 2011

Three movie watchers ponder the religious, spiritual, and moral themes in Avatar, Up, The Hurt Locker, and more. More →

March 5, 2010

  BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a Road to Damascus story today about a hard-living, cynical Hollywood writer who says he hit bottom one day and was transformed by God. He used to specialize in scripts full of sex, violence, … More →

February 6, 2009

The annual New York Jewish Film Festival showed a selection of films that “ask hard questions about life, culture, identity, and politics,” according to Richard Pena, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s program director and a member of the festival’s selection committee. More →

January 25, 2008

Part three of a four-part series: American evangelicals’ relationship with popular culture. In our national survey, conducted with U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, nearly three quarters of white evangelicals said the media are hostile to their values. Yet they have also created their own widely popular alternative music and books. More →

April 30, 2004

Read biblical scholar and author Allen Dwight Callahan’s review of the film THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. More →

October 3, 2003

For the first time in 40 years, the “Greatest Story Ever Told” is being retold in a new round of films with religious themes. The first is THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. Visual Bible International, a faith-based media company, has produced a verbatim adaptation from the GOOD NEWS BIBLE — an accessible translation written in 1966. More →

October 3, 2003

University of Pennsylvania ethicist Arthur Caplan goes to the movies for R & E in search of the ethics of human engineering. Read his thoughts on Steven Spielberg’s MINORITY REPORT: If you are interested in the ethical problems raised by … More →

June 21, 2002

“Mary, Mother of Jesus,” a movie airing on NBC, puts a distinctly feminist face on an extraordinary woman largely neglected in the Bible. More →

November 12, 1999