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. What good are films?
Calvin College film studies professor Bill Romanowski had the Monday religion slot on the USA Today op-ed page this week, and he calls for films that spark conversation, not conversions. "Evangelicals can influence Hollywood when they think of the cinema as an arena for cultural discourse but not a place for converting members of that culture to a specific Christian orientation," he writes.
"In other words, evangelicals' goal for the movie industry should be to encourage discourse, not merely evangelizing." Less than one-tenth of 1 percent of The Passion's audience accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior as a result of the film, he says, and Brokeback Mountain isn't turning anyone gay. But movies get people talking, he says. Once evangelicals understand that, he says, "they are in a position to shape that vital discussion."
. What good are films?
Calvin College film studies professor Bill Romanowski had the Monday religion slot on the USA Today op-ed page this week, and he calls for films that spark conversation, not conversions. "Evangelicals can influence Hollywood when they think of the cinema as an arena for cultural discourse but not a place for converting members of that culture to a specific Christian orientation," he writes.
"In other words, evangelicals' goal for the movie industry should be to encourage discourse, not merely evangelizing." Less than one-tenth of 1 percent of The Passion's audience accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior as a result of the film, he says, and Brokeback Mountain isn't turning anyone gay. But movies get people talking, he says. Once evangelicals understand that, he says, "they are in a position to shape that vital discussion."