Discerning eyes

Q&A | Beauty and stories are important to God, says screenwriter Brian Godawa, and that's why Christians should not ignore movies | Marvin Olasky

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Screenwriter Brian Godawa is not a March 7 Oscar nominee, but he is a Christian in Hollywood who, without selling out, has made good films—most notably, To End All Wars. He has also written two fine books published by IVP, Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment, and Word Pictures: Knowing God Through Story & Imagination.

Q: How do many American Christians interact with film? I see two extremes in the church: the cultural anorexic who, because there are some bad things in movies like sex and violence, throws the baby out with the bathwater, and the person with a lack of discernment who consumes everything. We need to watch films with discernment and interact with them redemptively—which means figure out what you agree and disagree with and why. You should take the good and reject the bad.

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