Boys' Bible Study

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...

Subscribe today for access to bonus episodes, exclusive content, and invitations to future livestreams! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy Can the concept of time travel even exist in Christianity? It allows mortals to control destiny and basically act like God. Seems inherently heretical, but that doesn't stop Christian creators from churning these things out. This is the third time travel film we've...

The long-running CBS drama Touched by an Angel spanned nine seasons in almost a decade. We tuned in to its later period and found this ideologically confusing gem of an episode in which a young Jewish cartoonist lashes out at her father by drawing anti-Semitic caricatures of him in the local paper. Her comic gets hugely popular, and everything seems fine until the wrong crowd misses the irony and...

Our most requested film to review is this sentimental drama about a "gang" of adolescent do-gooders who become estranged from their friend who spends some time away from the idyllic suburbs in the big bad city. The ButterCream Gang work a paper route, play baseball, know every adult in town, and somehow do the work of an entire police force on an average day. Meanwhile, their former friend Pete ju...

Subscribe today for access to bonus episodes, exclusive content, and invitations to future livestreams! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy Ash and Julian love to laugh! Unfortunately, they did not get a chance to do that while exploring the wide world of Christian Improv Comedy. In this episode, Ash and Julian meditate on the very nature of comedy. They ask questions like, "Is clean comedy even possib...

The nuclear family is under attack! Children are stolen from their parents to be kept as prisoners of the state! Government-issued drugs are making people lose their free will! This could never happen to me and my beautiful society, right? Wrong! REMEMBER (2012) is an ambitious Christian end-times sci-fi thriller that shows us how socialist mind control could destroy the core values we take for gr...

The Kendrick brothers are some of the most accomplished Christian filmmakers, easily in league with other greats such as Kirk Cameron and Kevin Sorbo. We review the Kendricks' most recent film in which a Christian high school cuts all their sports teams except for cross country for some reason, even though only one girl is participating. This teen athlete, Hannah, is on a troubled life path until...

Subscribe today for access to bonus episodes, exclusive content, and invitations to future livestreams! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy We finally bring the name of our podcast fully to life by hosting our first actual Bible study! In our most recent free episode, we watched basketball-themed Christian movie Breaking the Press (2010). The film's DVD contains a full study guide meant for an educatio...

Two brothers, abandoned as babies and raised by the local basketball coach, become the stars of their team. But when brother Josh's ego gets too big for his small town, he goes his own way, and he and his brother Matt reenact the famous parable of the prodigal son. Eyad Zahra, director of the 2010 cult classic Muslim punk film The Taqwacores, is also a lifelong basketball fan. He joins us to discu...

The Philosophical Research Society (PRS) is a remarkable institution housed within a beautiful little building with Mayan-inspired architecture in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Founded in 1934 by legendary esoteric scholar Manly P. Hall, the PRS is active to this day, housing Hall's comprehensive rare book collection, offering online courses in esoteric topics, and publishing and sell...

An all-star cast including Ja Rule, Adrienne Houghton (3LW), Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos), Toby Mac, and Stephen Baldwin grace this 2010s classic about a reformed gangster who is saved by the love of a cute church girl who works at a Christian bookstore. Ja Rule's honestly very good performance carries this film. Who better to talk to us about the intersection of mainstream rap and Christian pop...

Subscribe today for access to bonus episodes, exclusive content, and invitations to future livestreams! www.patreon.com/boysbiblestudy In which the Boys watch a DC Talk music video and this inspires an elaborate personal discussion on faith, the rapture, the apocalypse, and the ethics of raising kids to be constantly pondering death and damnation. This is our most accurate capture yet of what a Bo...