Shama Mrema built his career by making people laugh, but the road that brought him there was far from simple. Born in Tanzania to missionary parents, he grew up expecting to follow the same path of ministry and service. Instead, his life took a sharp turn. After being fired from a church and losing his father soon after, Shama found himself questioning everything he thought he was supposed to be. The film follows his rise as an up-and-coming comedian while he wrestles with grief, calling, and the pressure to live a life that honors God. As a father and an online personality, Shama faces the deeper question beneath all the jokes: what does it really mean to live a life that is worthy of God?
How could believers who claimed the same faith torture or drown one another over baptism? The answer is not as simple as we might expect. Blood and Baptism follows Dr. Erwin Lutzer and Dr. Gregg Quiggle through Switzerland as they retrace the messy, often overlooked story of the Swiss Reformation. The Catholic Church, the reformers, the state, and the early Anabaptists all believed they were defending truth, yet ended up in bitter conflict over authority, conscience, and what it meant to obey God. We visit the places shaped by figures like Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin and stand in the locations where Anabaptists paid with their lives for choosing adult baptism after coming to faith.
Can America function as a non-religious society? Washington D.C. tour guide and author Tim Schmig believes the Founders already gave us their answer; they quite literally carved it into the stones of the city. Throughout the monuments, buildings, and memorials of the nation's capital are countless inscriptions and references pointing to the Bible, to God, and to the Christian principles that shaped American government. Most visitors, however, are unaware of this and walk right past them. On the Supreme Court building, Moses holds the Ten Commandments above the doors. The Washington Monument has the words Laus Deo inscribed at its very peak. Every sunrise, Praise be to God, is the first thing the light touches. We never lost these gems, because they were never hidden. We simply stopped looking for them. This documentary follows Tim through the streets of Washington D.C., asking what these inscriptions meant to the men who put them there, what they reveal about the foundation of American liberty, and whether a nation that forgets God can hold on to the freedom that came with Him.
