Our General Editor, Kelinda Crawford,
asked author Lee Strobel and screen-
writer/producer Brian Bird:
Q: How well will The Case for Christ
“reach across the aisle” to people
skeptical of Christianity?
Strobel: This is a “safe” movie for
Christians to bring their non-believ-
ing friends to see with them. There’s
no “cringe factor” or “cheesiness” in
the film. It’s a high-quality production
with winners of the Academy Award,
Tony Award and other acting honors.
So I’m hoping Christians will take a
risk and invite their spiritually curious
neighbors, colleagues, and family
members to see this film with them. I
believe they’ll be captivated by the
love story, the tale of a troubled re-
lationship between a father and son,
and the account of a spiritual investi-
gation. My prayer is that thousands of
spiritual journeys will be launched as a
result of people seeing this movie.
Q: Brian, why make The Case for
Christ now, for this generation of
moviegoers? Are Millennials interested
in apologetics?
Bird: I actually believe every gener-
ation is hungry for answers to their
deepest existential questions: Is there
a God and does meaning exist in the
universe? Any seeker of truth, no mat-
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ter what their age, would be remiss
not to at least consider the evidence
for Christ if they are being intellectual-
ly honest in their search for answers.
The reason I believe that The Case for
Christ film is so relevant for today is
that I would safely guess MOST believ-
ers in Christ don’t have a good handle
on the evidence for their faith, and
they definitely don’t know how to ar-
ticulate what they believe. For them,
this film will be an inoculation against
doubt, but also a terrific appetizer of
the avalanche of historical evidence
for the crucifixion and resurrection of
Jesus, and for the veracity of the an-
cient manuscript stream — evidence
that very few Christians have studied
themselves. Lee Strobel, the con-
firmed atheist, realized after his deep-
dive into the evidence that it would
take more faith to stay in his atheism
than it would to believe in Christ, and
this film will also reinforce that truth
for believers and skeptics alike. Plus, I
think it turned out to be a really pow-
erful and entertaining movie!
Q: Lee, I’ve heard you say that, that it
would have taken more faith to main-
tain your atheism than to become a
Christian. Can you explain that?
Strobel: I spent nearly two years of my
life investigating the evidence for the
resurrection of Jesus. I found that his
death by crucifixion is historically indis-