Boys' Bible Study

In this stylized, y2k-era Christian heist film, David A.R. White embarks on a Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines scenario by portraying good and evil identical twin brothers. Jeremiah (David A.R. White) is a preacher who tries his best to live life right, but doesn't know how to inspire people with the word of God. John (David A.R. White) on the other hand, is a misfit even within the criminal underworld h...

"Hey Scotty - Jesus, man!" With these four words, young actor David A.R. White cemented his status in Christian film history. Even he had no idea that he would go on to found the most notable Christian film production company, Pure Flix. In his first ever starring role in SECOND GLANCE, he's Dan - a high school student who is fed up with being "the nice guy". Bullies harass him. Hot girls ignore h...

Subscribe today for access to our full catalog of bonus episodes, including 2+ new episodes every month! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy A fresh-faced David A.R. White plays Matt, a brooding Bible scholar who reluctantly takes a challenge to publicly present to a club of angry atheists that the end of the world is near. An enigmatic recurring dream and a mysterious old woman are his oracles that he...

Prolific leading man David A.R White is the founder of Pure Flix, the most recognizable Christian film production company. In ME AGAIN (2012), he stars as an unmotivated, depressed pastor who gains appreciation for his own life by magically swapping bodies with people he encounters. Our guest today is Anthony Banua-Simon, the filmmaker behind PURE FLIX AND CHILL (2018), a documentary about the ris...

"I just wanted to dance and hang out, dad! And now... all of this" An innocent teen ballerina's dreams are shattered when she is diagnosed with terminal leukemia, but God has an even greater plan for Sheri. This masterpiece by Christian auteur Greg Robbins shows the amazing things that can happen when an American high school girl is magically granted the exact same powers as Jesus. Special guest M...

Subscribe today for access to our full catalog of bonus episodes, including 2+ new episodes every month! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy Have you ever known someone who seemed like they were coming from a good place, but something about them is just a little...off? Should you take time, earn their trust, and include them in your God-fearing community? Absolutely not! They WILL kidnap your kids and...

Is prayer in school okay? What should I do if my friend is hooked on illegal porn? How can I, personally, defeat Isis? After one full year of intense studies in Christian cinema, the Boys reflect on what we learned. This episode is an extended discussion of the filmmakers, stars, and themes we've come to love from the genre. We also hold an awards ceremony to definitively decide which film, direct...

Subscribe today for access to bonus episodes, exclusive content, and invitations to future livestreams! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy We close our Christmas season with this wonderfully bizarre musical film about a minister who loses his faith on the holiest holiday of the year. Dejected and alone, he wanders into the titular GOD CAFÉ, which boasts of menu offerings such as "Amazing Holy Cheeseca...

Christmas today is disgusting! We used to be able to look in department store windows and make pudding together as a nuclear family, but no longer. How can we take charge of the Christmas spirit in our own lives? There is a man with many, many theories about this and his name is Pastor Greg Robbins. His 2009 DVD Christmas Unwrapped uses documentary, dramatizations, interviews, and stock footage to...

Subscribe today for access to bonus episodes, exclusive content, and invitations to future livestreams! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy Bedbugs are one of God's only mistakes. So why should we trust them to teach us about the Bible? The boys watch the Christmas episode of this made-for-video kids show about singing bugs in Bible times. They are ready to snidely dismiss this entire presentation as r...

This long-running and popular Christian audio drama is staffed by legendary voice actors and bankrolled by notorious fundamentalist Christian activist group Focus on the Family. Despite this insidious connection, Adventures in Odyssey (AiO) is a well-produced and enjoyable listen that transfixed many young Christian '90s kids as parent-approved entertainment. Our guest Marina Kittaka, an artist an...

Subscribe today for access to bonus episodes, exclusive content, and invitations to future livestreams! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy Our November bonus episodes spotlight the filmography of the Christiano Brothers, who could be considered among the biggest names in Christian filmmaking due to their high volume of well-produced output. Their first ever film is THE DAYLIGHT ZONE, which is quite ob...

This influential avant-garde short film made for the 1964 New York World's Fair drew national controversy for its allegorical portrayal of Jesus as a clown in the circus of life. A much more subtle and arty Christian film than we are usually accustomed to watching for this podcast, it tells a New Testament story using whimsical imagery that can turn deeply haunted at a moment's notice. Grant Monin...

This radio play by Boys' Bible Study and friends presents the story of Exodus 32 as you've never heard it before. While Moses is away having a sit-down with God on Mt. Sinai, the tribes of Israel are thirsty for a hot new deity to worship. The boys of the Exodus Experience podcast pressure Moses's brother Aaron to build them a beautiful Golden Calf. When God gets jealous, the party of the year tur...

In a not-so-distant future, a secret cell of Christians are deemed "radical" by the government because they want to read the original Bible and not the state-censored version. As they endure police raids, legal theft of their land and homes, and the psychic threat of political correctness, they yearn for an escape to a better, freer world. A spaceship called Mayflower II proves to be a reliable ge...

Subscribe today for access to bonus episodes, exclusive content, and invitations to future livestreams! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy From the twisted mind of Dave Christiano (The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry) comes this TV series about the wacky day-to-day adventures of a Christian theater troupe. They work in a theater owned by an unseen character named Mr. Wheeler who desired a place where audie...

In this absolute banger of a film by the prolific Christiano brothers, an elderly man makes it his life's mission to teach the lessons of the Bible to as many young boys as possible. Jonathan Sperry imparts on our boy protagonists the important concepts of loving thy neighbor, turning the other cheek, and being so kind to others that it basically becomes an act of emotional terrorism. Internet per...

This year's most anticipated Christian action film by Pure Flix stars the absolute legend David A.R. White in the titular role as a former assassin turned preacher. When his adopted daughter is kidnapped by a snakelike cult leader (Billy Baldwin) he makes a desperate call to the mysterious Network in order to get back in the killer-for-hire game and save his daughter's life. The film could easily...

Contains spoilers. We discuss occult and esoteric topics as they relate to this contemporary cult classic art horror film, including the Goetia, Aleister Crowley, and Spiritualism. We have both high praise and sharp criticism for the film, which captivated audiences with its amazing acting performances and profuse use of occult symbols, but ultimately feels godless and unable to capture the full a...

Subscribe today for access to bonus episodes, exclusive content, and invitations to future livestreams! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy The directorial debut of Brian Lohr is a moody and compelling short film about a Christian who is given the opportunity to use a phone that can call anyone exactly two days in the past. The protagonist uses it to try to prevent his wife's fatal car accident, but wh...

From the director of Pray and Pray 2.5 comes another Christian horror film with a night vision twist. PARANORMAL weaves storylines of ghost hunters investigating a haunted asylum in the style of Blair Witch, while a skeptical novelist has a terrifying experience with a ouija board that leads him to seek help from a pastor who is knowledgeable in the supernatural. Our guest Joey Gallimore of horror...

As we spotlight Christian horror films throughout October, we exhume this macabre teen movie about a family of secret agents called in to go undercover at a high school. A supernatural affliction causes the jock bullies of the school to suffer seizures while hallucinating the ghost of Abel Frye, a former student who hanged himself on school grounds. Notably, the film is adapted from a screenplay b...

Subscribe today for access to bonus episodes, exclusive content, and invitations to future livestreams! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy Jack Chick is one of the most notable names in Christian missioning through art. His popular and notorious "Chick Tracts" are moral lessons in comic form meant to be given as gifts or left in public for people to find and get saved. But it took an outside force, in...

This biopic of legendary professional wrestler Sting, real name Steve Borden, tells the story of his career from the very beginning up until his fateful come-to-Jesus moment that transformed him into a born-again Christian. Sting has since acted in several Christian movies, including a Boys' Bible Study personal favorite The Encounter (2010) that was a subject of one of our earlier episodes, and w...

This narrative collection of music videos is literally a cult classic - having originated from the Children of God cult, now known as The Family International. In an hour of genuinely catchy and beautiful pop music enhanced by psychedelic editing, the cult delivers its special blend of hypersexual doomsday Christianity in an iconic way that feels fresh 30 years later. Our friend Woodrow White intr...