Join us for our last Movie Night of the year at the French Garden Restaurant for "What Would Jesus Buy?" This is a film by Reverend Billy & the Church of Life After Shopping, a satire on holiday consumerism, just as the season begins to gear up for it. Father Phil Roundtree of St Stephens Episcopal Church will be the guest speaker after the film for group discussion.
Wednesday, October 27
7:00 - 9:00pm
Please arrive on time!
Come early and enjoy dinner!
The movie:
Produced by Morgan Spurlock and directed by Rob VanAlkemade, this docu-comedy follows our trials and triumphs across the country as we preach and sing to help holiday-abused Americans find a new Christmas without products.
The film takes the viewer into the homes of families as they max our their credit cards to live up to the Consumer Ideal of Christmas, while also telling personal stories from those who remember the holidays as a simpler, less commercial, and more joyful time. Interviews with labor rights experts, historians, and spiritual leaders reveal how the consumerization of the holiday season over time taught Americans they can only show love for their children by purchasing toys made by other children in overseas sweatshops.
This film has played throughout the US, bringing Fair Trade activists and Evangelical Christians together in darkened movie theaters, emerging with new tools to BUY LESS and GIVE MORE!
