‘They just don’t have to be good’

A gentle, if potty-mouthed, satire uses the Christian movie subculture as the backdrop for a story about friendship

John I. Carney
5 min readOct 19, 2020

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Lance Reddick, Luke Barnett, and Tanner Thomason in “Faith Based” (Gravitas Ventures)

“Faith-based” movies have become a profit center. That may or may not reflect on the people making them; I’d like to think the vast majority of those involved at the creative level are sincere. But one imagines the…

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John I. Carney

Author of “Dislike: Faith and Dialogue in the Age of Social Media,” available at http://www.lakeneuron.com/dislike