Christian film festival encourages better film making. Authors and screenwriters of Christian books and movies will gather at Lifeway Conference Center this week to pitch projects and learn more about producing films families can watch without wincing.
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Bill Reichart is a husband, daddy of two daughters and a pastor at Big Creek Church (pca) in North Atlanta. Bill received his Masters of Divinity from Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. Before pastoring a church, he worked with college students in the northeast for over 16 years. He really enjoys movies, science fiction/fantasy writing (yes he’s been to a Star-Trek convention!), the Simpsons and theology books - not necessarily in that order. He has always been fascinated with the intersection of culture and his faith. 
“Every film you go to now has mounds of cussing, lots of violence, all kinds of sex in it.”
Wow, what movies is that guy seeing?
p.s. the citizen-times is in deep trouble and they didn’t even know it. The hammer of Tom’s wrath will soon fall because there was no ® following an all-capped Movieguide.
That quote should have read:
“Every film you go to now has mounds of cussing, hills of violence, mountains of sex in it.”
That would have been too clever.