A new film out this week depicting the life of Jesus aims to reach an audience its director says has long been overlooked. "JESUS: a Deaf Missions film," will be the first of its kind made up of a ...

(RNS) — Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a Deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder ...

A version of this story appeared in the Higher Ground newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Higher Ground delivered directly to your inbox each Sunday. A film about the life of ...

A new movie from Deaf Missions tells the gospel story in American Sign Language. Subtitling is a kind of translation too. There are whole ministries devoted to dubbing and creating captions for Bible ...

“Jesus” retells the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ — all in American Sign Language. “Thelma” has good actors and some winning ideas, but it lacks a bit of grandmother’s common sense.

There are plenty of movies out there that have been made about Jesus Christ. The New Testament story has been brought to life countless times over the years, with varying degrees of faithfulness to ...

It has always struck me as absurd that actors in English-language films set in other times or countries speak in accents. After all, the ancient Romans, Greeks, Israelites, Gaels or whatever other ...

And other brief news from Christians around the world. Three scholars asked 820 Chinese, English, and Semitic-language speakers to listen to the Cru-produced Jesus film in 228 different languages and ...

What if, in his early days as a humble carpenter in Nazareth, before he amassed his 12 disciples or turned water into wine, Jesus befriended a mixed martial arts fighter? This is the basic premise of ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama Jesus of Nazareth—but as a Deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it would ...