How shall the thoughtful Christian think about, enjoy, and participate in the creation of mass media? This course will begin with a lecture providing a general framework for Christian ethics (based on the assigned text) and then proceed with a lecture discussing the creation of mass media particularly with attention to what a film is and what it’s for. Considerable attention will then be devoted to the realities of money, sex, power, and ideology in filmmaking and in other media, with straight talk from the instructors: a cinematically interested theologian with experience in print and broadcasting, and an ethically concerned filmmaker with a lifetime in the church.

Ralph Winter is a Film Producer whose credits include X-men, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek IV and VI.

John G. Stackhouse, Jr. is Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College. He is the author of Can God Be Trusted? and Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character.