How might Strobel’s journey translate to screen? What questions will the film raise, or attempt to answer, about faith and unbelief? But films are different from the written word. I’ve read The Case for Christ, as well as a handful of Strobel’s other books, and I’ve always appreciated their grace and rationality. Directed by Jon Gunn (with screenplay adaptation duties by Brian Bird), the film adaptation hits theaters nationwide tomorrow. God’s Not Dead may have struck gold among evangelicals, but its portrayal of spiritual skeptics and Christian triumphalism remains problematic at best.īased on the bestselling book by Lee Strobel, Pure Flix’s newest film tells the true story of a Chicago Tribune journalist who undergoes a quest to debunk Christianity after his wife converts and joins a church. It’s a story about a spiritual journey and the evidence for the faith.On the opposite side of the pew, many decry the modern faith-based film and make a clear distinction between these projects and movies that survey Christian themes with honesty, humility, and authenticity. This is not a documentary where we just spew out the evidence.
Case in point, the first God’s Not Dead film, which released in 2014, raked in just over $60 million (on a $2 million budget). And most aren’t struggling to survive the cost of their production budget either. Risen, Pure Flix’s God’s Not Dead 2, and The Resurrection of Gavin Stone-to name a few-all hit theaters in the last year. In one sense, there are more explicitly Christian-themed movies produced about Jesus, heaven, and the church than ever. Ask any two people, you’ll get two answers.
Faith-based films have fallen on hard times.
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