Session 19 - Sunday April 17 - 12:00pm - 2:30pm
Broadway Theatre - 26 West Street Boston MA 02111
Some four thousand new evangelical churches are “planted” annually in the United States, springing up in schools, cafes and movie theaters replete with rock bands, new-age names and bathtub baptisms. But when a young modern-day missionary couple named David and Betsy Hill buck convention and plant their church in Boston, amongst the most secular cities nationwide, they soon find themselves at odds with the predominant culture. Frozen Chosen follows the Hills’ unvarnished quest to win souls and build their fledgling congregation and in doing so illuminates the larger story of a fundamentalist faith struggling to remain “culturally relevant” in an increasingly polarized society. It also lays bare the consequences of the Hills’ religious convictions, for both themselves and their followers. Paul comes to Fenway church in crisis over his sexuality and with David’s guidance, makes a decision with life-changing impact while Jordan finds God and gets baptized on the spot only to become troubled by the notion that there is just one right way to believe. David and Betsy, fervent but self-aware and bracingly honest, must wrestle with their own doubts as financial and spiritual pressures mount in their endeavor to be one of the few new churches to make it. Gaining intimate access to a world generally closed to outsiders, Frozen Chosen uncovers the universal in the Hills’ search for meaning and purpose while leaving it to viewers to reckon whether they are heroes or anti-heroes.
