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Film Review: For The Bible Tells Me So
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Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes
Welcome to our second Future of Christianity documentary film review, featuring Ken Wilber and David Riordan. This week we are reviewing Daniel Karslake's For the Bible Tells Me So, the winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival, as well as a Sundance Film Festival selection.
A provocative documentary, For the Bible Tells Me So attempts to reconcile homosexuality and biblical scripture while exploring whether Church-sanctioned anti-gay bias might be based entirely upon a misinterpretation of the Bible's original text.
Dan offers this exploration through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families—including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and the first openly gay Episcopal Bishop, Gene Robinson. We watch how these families of faith relate to the realization of having a gay child. This process is informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes, and Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg.
Dan's stated intention with this film is to offer healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the cross-hairs of Christian scripture and their sexual identity. Join us as we explore this film's perspective on gay rights, same sex relationships and the role of the Christian church in today's world.
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Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages, and is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his Collected Works published while still alive. Wilber is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development, which continues to gather momentum around the world. His many books, all of which are still in print, can be found at Amazon.com. Some of his more popular books include Integral Spirituality; No Boundary; Grace and Grit; Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; and the "everything" books: A Brief History of Everything (one of his largest selling books) and A Theory of Everything (probably the shortest introduction to his work). Ken Wilber is the founder of Integral Institute, Inc., the co-founder of Integral Life, Inc., and the Senior Fellow of Integral Life Spiritual Center.
David Riordan
David Riordan is Vice President of Media Development for Integral Life, Inc. David is responsible for managing Integral Life's media business development, including creating compelling and accessible stories in multiple mediums—including online, DVD and motion picture formats.
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