Two United Methodist congregations in Lebanon are hosting film screenings and discussions of contemporary issues this fall and invite the community to participate.
On Tuesday, September 29 at 7:00 pm at Kochenderfer Church, 1105 Kochenderfer Road, Lebanon, the film The [Conserv]atives will be screened. For four years, the filmmakers followed four Republicans (an evangelical scientist, a pragmatic farmer, a young movement leader, and a Miami mayor) doing something their party’s leadership wouldn’t — taking climate change seriously, in public, at real personal cost. Not because they abandoned their conservatism, but because they took it seriously. What we found wasn’t a story about politics. It was a story about courage, community, and what happens when conviction runs up against tribal loyalty — and refuses to blink. This is that story.
On Friday, October 16 at 7:00 p.m. at Church of the Good Shepherd, 1500 Quentin Road, Lebanon, the film Jesus Was A Migrant will be screened. When the Trump administration shut down the CBP One asylum app on January 20, 2025, approximately 270,000 migrants were left with no legal pathway forward. Many were Christians. So were the people who cheered. The film follows real people in real crisis and deals with the lived experiences of migrants and asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Jesus Was A Migrant follows NY Times bestselling author, historian, and public educator Dr. Jemar Tisby to the border to ask the question American Christianity has been avoiding: What does our faith actually require of us?
For more information, contact cogschurchandsociety@gmail.com.
