RUMC “goes to the movies” in worship. We open our minds and hearts to stories from popular culture to find where they intersect with themes in our Scriptures.

Contemporary perspectives can give us new insight and avenues for living our faith. In the beginning of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, a life in God is described in what is known as the Beatitudes. The last Beatitude depicts rejection, being ridiculed and harassed for following Jesus. In this movie based on PT Barnum’s life, we follow a group of people accepted for their differences in order to entertain others and rejected for those same differences. We are invited to confront what it means to live both accepted and rejected for our differences.