October 2025
Editorial Depending on your age, the sights and sounds of movie day in class varied. If you were in school in the 60s [...] Article From Screen to Soul: The Transformative Threshold of Movies in the Christian Classroom We all come into the world looking for someone looking for us. —Curt Thompson, The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We [...] Article Programmed for Purpose: Exploring Themes of The Wild Robot in the Christian Classroom Can a castaway robot inspire students to light up the world in new and impactful ways? The 2024 movie The Wild Robot [...] Article Films That Inspire Grit: Teaching Perseverance Through Story May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another… that together you may with [...] Article Heather J. S. Birch, Nicole Fletcher, Cheryl Metcalf, and Clara Birch The development of critical analysis skills and habits of mind is [...] Article Visual Literacy, Written Skills: Screenwriting as a Tool for Student Voice Recently, my teenage son introduced me to the “Absolute Cinema” meme. If you’re not familiar, it is a black and white image [...] Article Movies Your Mother Wouldn’t Let You Watch Why Media Literacy Matters My mother was cautious about the movies I could watch. Thankfully, my dad was more flexible. I experienced [...]