Come Sunday - 015

Come Sunday is a film that finally tells the story of the journey into a type of Christianity that Divine Cinema and it’s hosts abide in.  However, is it a good film? Does the filmmaking bring to life the struggle in challenging a tenant of Evangelical theology and all the loss that comes with that, or does it just make you wish hell actually exists?  Listen to find out what Jeff, Dylan and Adam think. And of course to hear where they stand on its theological merits as measured by the tried and true pieces of silver rating system.

 

Divine Cinema Review of Come Sunday (04:42)

Ratings and Redeemed Perspectives (45:54)

PLOT SUMMARY

After a series of tragic events, Bishop Carlton Pearson begins to question his long standing belief in hell.  Eventually he expresses this doubt in the most public way a pastor could, through a sermon. The sermon has a ripple effect, not just through his congregation, but in his family and American Christianity.  The film follows Bishop Pearsons journey as he is labeled a heretic by many of his congregants, colleagues and even friends.

RELEVANT LINKS

From Our Review of Come Sunday

Heretics (This American Life podcast episode with Reverend Carlton Pearson) Carlton Pearson (American Christian Minister on whom Come Sunday is based) Oral Roberts (an American Charismatic Christian televangelist) Yvette Flunder (an American singer and senior pastor of the City of Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland, California and Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries) Black Pentecostal Group Denounces Carlton Pearson as a Heretic (Article) Sorry to Bother You (2018 Film) Straight Outta Compton (2015 Film) Love Wins by Rob Bell (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link) A Gift Of A Bible (Video of Penn Jillette speaking about proselytizing) Joel Osteen (an American televangelist)

Staff Picks

First Reformed (2018 Film)

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