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Christian movie

I Can Only Imagine: A Review

March 18, 2018 by Randal

Yesterday a friend invited me to the new Christian movie I Can Only Imagine. (He even paid for my ticket because he’s generous and I’m cheap!) The film tells the story of Bart Millard, how he grew up in an abusive home and went on to co-found the band MercyMe and then write the mega-hit song […]

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All Saints: A Christian movie for non-fundamentalists

August 30, 2017 by Randal

A few weeks ago I was invited to attend a pre-screening of All Saints, a “Christian movie”. I’m not sure what a Christian movie is, but as best I can guess, in popular parlance it is a movie marketed to evangelical Christians. That in itself is enough to make me skeptical. As a cinephile, I’m interested […]

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The Shack on the Silver Screen

December 1, 2016 by Randal

Some of my long time readers will know that my most successful book (by a country mile) was a companion to the phenomenally popular 2007 novel The Shack. William Paul Young’s novel told the unlikely story about a grieving father spending a weekend with the Trinity at the cabin where his beloved daughter was murdered. The […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christian movie, Finding God in the Shack, The Shack, William Paul Young

What is a Christian movie? (Hint: It isn’t merely a movie that’s marketed to Christians)

July 25, 2015 by Randal

Yesterday Matt Fradd posted a brief exchange we had over the film God’s not Dead. While I expressed opposition to the film in the “Fradd exchange”, my opposition was even stronger in my original review. After I published that review I heard from a Christian who was unhappy that I had been so unremittingly negative […]

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