And with All Your Mind

<p>It's 1971 and Silas Baker is a high school senior in California whose main interests are basketball and weekend parties. But his life takes a dramatic turn when he encounters a group of committed Christians who soberly inform him that Jesus is coming soon! </p><p>They enroll at Riverstent Bible College. It's an exciting time as leading Bible teachers have predicted that Jesus will return to Rapture his Church within one generation of the 1948 formation of the State of Israel. Popular movies further inflame this passion as the eager students study Apologetics and Biblical Archaeology; aberrant theologies such as the Death-of-God movement; and even conflicting interpretations of the End Times. An activist spirit develops within evangelicalism culminating in the so-called Christian Right as the evangelical world is rocked in the aftermath of the televangelist scandals. </p><p>Confronted by world views such as Calvinism and Christian Reconstruction the characters passionately debate controversies such as Biblical Inerrancy and the age of the cosmos in addition to challenging evangelicals who deny traditional doctrines such as that of endless punishment in Hell or who promote an Open (yet limited) concept of God himself. </p><p>As society evolves so does evangelicalism: seeker sensitive megachurches appear while Postmodernism and the Emergent Church become realities. Theologians wrestle with the question of divorce and remarriage and the role of women in the church as well as the divisive issue of homosexuality. As they struggle with life's realities they ultimately must also respond to nonchristians who are alienated indifferent or engaged in active opposition to Christianity while searching for the meaning of Christian faith in the modern world. </p>