From the team that brought you the award-winning Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, director Nicholas Ma’s new film Leap of Faith challenges us to consider whether we can disagree and still belong to each other in a divided world. Leap of Faith opens only in theaters beginning October 4th.
Leap of Faith heavily features the work of The Colossian Forum and our president, Michael Gulker.
We believe Leap of Faith is a beautiful and important movie for today’s culture. While the movie does not speak for The Colossian Forum, it does speak to us, deeply. With the filmmakers, we share a deep desire for mutual belonging, and the film articulates that longing beautifully. We hope this movie will light a fire for that belonging. We hope that each viewer will find their way into that possibility by journeying into greater love of God and love of neighbor and the transcendent love found there.
To find out when the film is playing near you, visit www.leapoffaithmovie.com.
Background on the film and the involvement of The Colossian Forum
Leap of Faith Producer Morgan Neville and Director Nicholas Ma approached The Colossian Forum in 2021 to inquire about participation in this movie. Morgan read about The Colossian Forum in a December 2020 Wall Street Journal article, and had a desire to understand whether humans can disagree and still belong to each other in a divided world.
As we learned more about Morgan and Nicholas, we discovered their intent was authentic and their questions came from a place of curiosity, love, and respect, which are important values at The Colossian Forum. We ultimately said “yes” to participating because we felt the movie could bring a message of hope, show the beauty that can emerge in conflicted spaces, and demonstrate that faith communities have an extraordinarily important and positive role to play in our time of deep national polarization.
Learn more about Leap of Faith, watch the trailer, and hear from the pastors in a podcast on our website: colossianforum.org.