The movies we call faith-based often take the form of disaster porn. It only makes sense. These movies, framed as tests of faith, are built around a literalization of the spirit of Job and Jesus — the Biblical figures who found transcendence by facing the worst that life could dish out. (That’s how a lot of us find our faith.)
“I Can Only Imagine,” the 2018 Christian rock drama that was framed as a biopic of Bart Millard (John Michael Finley), the lead singer of MercyMe, may have been a feel-good parable pegged to one of the biggest Christian pop hits of all time (the title song, which was
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