With a woman at Look at Culture from a Christian World View, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

Jesus still does pretty well at the box office, not to mention streaming online.

The recent movie Jesus Revolution, which tells the story of a 1970s California revival,

has so far made double what its critics predicted, grossing over 51 million in domestic

ticket sales.

In fact, the movie's already grossed more in sales than most of the 2023 Oscar nominees

combined.

Though guardians of high culture tend to prefer movies that demonize Christianity, Americans

seem hungry for something else.

John Calvin once pointed out that humans possess an inherent longing for God that either

leads us to superstition and idolatry or to the true God revealed in Christ.

Jesus Revolution is just the latest case study of how artful storytelling taps into that

longing.

The question in any era of human history is not whether we worship, but what we worship.

The success of Jesus Revolution reminds us that art can still capture the imagination

and affirm our fundamental human desire for God.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.