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J.E.S.U.S.A. Director Issues a Call Back to the Gospel

By Jacob Sahms Early on, filmmaker Kevin Miller thought he’d make feature films, screenwriting stories in Hollywood. Since 2003 though, most of his films have been documentaries exploring religious views- Christian Zionism, Intelligent Design, Separatists, etc. – he’s even made films with Ben Stein (Expelled) and Kirk Cameron (Monumental). But all of this is with […]

Behind The Scenes of the I Still Believe Premiere

By Peyton Garland Recently, my husband and I went to Giving Company’s special screening of I Still Believe, the beautiful love story of Christian singer Jeremy Camp and his faith-driven, fearless first wife, Melissa. Melissa and Jeremy’s love story starts off the same way that every other young college couple’s love story should. They are all […]

Jeremy Camp Still Believes Suffering Helps Him See Eternity

By Jacob Sahms How do you respond in the midst of unspeakable tragedy and raging uncertainty? A certified Gold singer, Jeremy Camp, believes his story can provide some peace and point people to Jesus. This week, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the story of singer Camp and his first wife, who was diagnosed […]

Ordinary Love Directors Point to Humor and Courage in the Face of Tragedy

By Jacob Sahms In Ordinary Love, Academy Award nominees Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville play Tom and Joan, a couple in their sixties who discover that Joan has cancer even as they wrestle with their grief over losing a daughter. Irish directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn worked to tell the couples’ story of […]

The Cave: How Do You Save Lives While Fighting For Yours?

By Jacob Sahms Opening with a quiet morning in Ghouta, the scene quickly changes as missiles connect, hitting the ground and buildings. The stillness in Damascus is replaced with a sense of dread, of debris, of smoke, and of death. This is the reality for Syrians in the midst of a civil war that threatens […]

How Dolittle Wrestles with Grief

By Jacob Sahms Don’t get me wrong: Robert Downey Jr.’s Dolittle is significantly more entertaining and enjoyable than its 18% score on Rotten Tomatoes would lead you to believe. But the film’s messages, about working with others who are different from you and overcoming the insurmountable wall of grief, provide a substantial pool of issues to reflect […]

Little Women Actress Seeks God’s Direction in Story and Service

By Jacob Sahms Over thirty-three acres of sprawling gardens, Bristol, Rhode Island’s Blithewold is known for its three-hundred species of trees and the historic mansion of Augustus Van Wickle, overlooking Narragansett Bay. But twenty years ago, at a Shakespearean performance, the sword fight that occurred on stage captured the attention of one young woman and […]

So You Want to Go to the Movies…

By Jacob Sahms It’s a new year, and suddenly the world is on fire, and not in a good way. There are continent-threatening fires in Australia with two-thousand homes destroyed and 130 fires still burning. A sudden conflict with Iran leads to the expulsion of American forces. A will-they-or-won’t-they impeachment hangs like a cloud over Washington. […]