Pier Paolo Pasolini's masterpiece comes to life in color for the first time in this beautifully told film about the life of Jesus Christ according to St. Matthew. The story begins with His birth and illustrates how His teachings attracted not only His disciples, but crowds of believers. When the Pharisees, chief priests and elders learn of Jesus, they conspire to have Him arrested, beaten, tried and crucified on the cross. This classic film is a beautiful...

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....

Here is the intimate story of one of the greatest preachers in the history of the church. We follow him from his youth where, as a young preacher he is surprisingly called to minister in London and soon captures the love and respect of the nation. He goes on to become one of its most influential figures. This powerful, inspirational docudrama faithfully recreates the times of C.H. Spurgeon and brings the people's preacher" to life as it follows...

Few people have influenced the course of the church like John Wesley. Like his reforming predecessor, Martin Luther, Wesley's early life was marked by a moralism driven by fear of God's judgment. And it was Luther's writing that helped Wesley to understand the scriptural message of grace through faith. Set free from his bondage to self-righteousness Wesley set out to awaken a church that had once again traded the truth for lies and mission for self-preservation....

Trading in his city clothes and cell phone for a black hat and plain shirt, host Tevya goes off the grid into a world where technology is taboo and life is humble. Mennonites live without modern conveniences, drive horse and buggies and worship in their own devout yet simple ways. Can city-boy Tevya survive a cattle auction, farming by hand and a quilting circle?

Having spent a lifetime concealing his heritage, an aging German Holocaust survivor tries to come to terms with his past. Born Menachem Teitelbaum, Marcus Schwarz (German Academy Award winner Mario Adorf) escaped Auschwitz with his life only to exterminate his Jewishness. Without family, a synagogue or a single Jewish friend, the hardened old man has so effectively created a new identity that, when faced with his own mortality, the rabbis refuse his...

When Nazi forces invaded Holland in 1940 and began rounding up Jews, Corrie ten Boom, her sister Betsie, and their elderly father risked their lives to save as many as possible. A hidden room was secretly built in their home where the oppressed Jews took refuge until a Gestapo raid put an end to their operation. For their crimes," Corrie and Betsie were sent to the notorious concentration camp at Ravensbruck, where they suffered relentless cruelty....

Islamic religious life is guided by the conviction that God has ordained a law, or shariʿa, for humans, a law which is all-encompassing. This law can never be fully known; Muslims seek to derive an understanding of the law through the sources of revelation-namely the Qurʾān and the hadith-but also through reasoning by analogy and by the consensus of the community.

A spoiled schoolgirl, her overworked executive mother, and a disillusioned young minister each learns a valuable lesson about tradition, community, and the truest meaning of Christmas from a mysterious drifter named Jess.

Living "The Good Life" is to live a life of freedom based on Gospel values as expressed in the Beatitudes. We cannot do so without help from God. We need the grace of Christ's Spirit. Grace heals and perfects human nature. It enables us to keep God's commandments. It enables us to live a life for God and neighbor. The Beatitudes provide the content of the New Law; the Spirit empowers us to live it by showering us with its manifold gifts.