![]() ![]() I love each of the films I’ve made and am proud of where they’ve gone and the way they've connected with a multitude of people.īut, as I go back and watch over the films I’ve created, I also think over the real and personal life events I’ve both experienced in my own life and witnessed in the ones around me. ![]() I am still a man of deep faith which is actually the reason I am choosing to not create Christian films anymore. Now before you get out the stones and label me a “heretic” pulled away from the faith by the siren call of "secular culture," hear me out. And for that reason, I have made my last “Christian” film. None of the films I made had cursing, they didn’t have sex scenes, and of course, they didn’t have endings where everything wasn’t tied up nicely with a happy ending bow- they didn’t have these things not because I didn’t want to put them in my movies, or thought I could tell a better story without them, but instead because I knew if I did include mature content or unanswered questions in my films, they wouldn’t sell. It was also what they didn’t have in them. Each of the three movies I’ve written, produced, directed and acted in over the last seven years have been strongly faith-based they were modern interpretations of Bible stories, portrayed prayer and preaching, and Christian morality was front and center.īut it wasn’t just what they had in them that marked them as “Christian” films. As a result of its success, I made another film a couple of years later, and just recently, I released my third faith-based movie. It had a TV star in it, sold hundreds of thousands of copies and ended up trending on Netflix. (OPINION) Seven years ago, I released my first “faith-based” film. This piece reflects the views of the author and does not necessarily represent those of Religion Unplugged, its staff and contributors. Religion Unplugged believes in a diversity of well-reasoned and well-researched opinions. ![]()
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