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Days before Christmas 1978, Peter Walker, a young English lay preacher, is killed in a motorcycle accident. His wife Mary, already emotionally fragile, falls into the depths of suicidal depression. As a result she loses custody of her two young boys, Paul and James. The boys are further traumatized as they are taken under the care of the county authorities and placed in a series of children's homes and in a temporary foster placement with their grandparents....
2) Sent
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Sent is a documentary on Fr. Stan Fortuna, a jazz, hip hop Franciscan priest who mixes music with message and serves the poor in the South Bronx and internationally. Before his calling to the priesthood, he was a professional jazz bassist and still plays Birdland with his trio when time permits. Fr. Stan is a founding member of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal who embrace "radical poverty" and live an ascetic lifestyle of friars in some of the...
6) Glass Walls
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Inspired by true stories of faith and healing, this film follows two pastors and their wives who experience experience extreme burnout and as a last resort attend a retreat designed to shatter their Glass Walls.
10) The Last Apostle
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The Last Apostle follows real-life Indiana Jones and world-renowned archeologist, Dr. Mark Fairchild, as he travels the historic route of Saint Paul the Apostle. Over the course of two weeks, Fairchild travels from the ancient city of Istanbul to the wild
13) Forgiving God
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Jon Moore, orphaned at nine and raised in an abusive foster system, learns about faith and forgiveness from a mysterious girl he meets while placed in a final foster home. He falls in love only to learn that she harbours a tragedy of her own.
15) Return to Me
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Fully improvised movie. In this tale of motherhood and survival, a woman on the run and a teen mother go on a journey of healing across the American West.
16) Unlikely Family
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Follow this Unlikely Family as it challenges the archaic ideology that being openly gay - and Christian - is incompatible.
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