Arkansas native Natalie Canerday, perhaps most known for her work in Sling Blade (1996), appears as the representative of the teachers’ union. senator and renowned actor Fred Dalton Thompson makes his last cinematic appearance, credited only as “senior pastor” for a brief role, while longtime entertainer Pat Boone plays Walter Wesley, Grace’s aged father. The Newsboys, a Christian rock group, also return to perform their hit song “God’s Not Dead (Like a Lion),” as well as a new one, “Guilty,” written specifically for this movie. However, it is apparently set in the same community, and the film’s various subplots include many characters from the first.
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This movie is not a direct sequel to God’s Not Dead, which was filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and centered upon a young university student facing off against an atheist philosophy professor who required all of his first-year students to write the words “God Is Dead” on a piece of paper and submit it for course credit. White), a minor character, being arrested for a failure to turn over the text of his recent sermons to authorities. In the end, the jury rules for Wesley, and Brooke Thawley announces to the assembled mass outside of the courthouse, “God’s not dead!” A post-credits scene depicts Pastor Dave (David A. Warner Wallace (author of Cold Case Christianity). To that end, he brings in a few real-life figures to testify, such as Lee Strobel (author of The Case for Christ) and J. Metcalfe decides to try to prove that Jesus was an actual historical figure, thus making discussion about him a legitimate exercise for a history classroom.
Lawyer Tom Metcalfe (Jesse Endler) takes Wesley’s case, which ends up in the court of Judge Stennis (Ernie Hudson). Kane talks them into suing the school district. To try to facilitate her firing, the head of the board contacts Pete Kane (Ray Wise), a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who approaches Brooke’s parents, who both object to their daughter’s exposure to religion in the classroom. The board demands that Wesley apologize, and when she refuses, members vote to suspend her and threaten the revocation of her teaching certificate. Wesley’s answer incorporates a few lines of Christian scripture, specifically Jesus’s command to love one’s enemies, which results in the school board summoning her for a disciplinary hearing. High School, asks teacher Wesley about the religious origins of King’s commitment to non-violence.
and Mahatma Gandhi, student Brooke Thawley (played by Hayley Orrantia), in her history class at the fictional Martin Luther King Jr. Filmed in central Arkansas, the movie is a sequel to the 2014 film God’s Not Dead and centers upon Grace Wesley (played by Hart), a high school history teacher who encounters legal trouble for incorporating words from Christian scripture in a classroom lesson.ĭuring a lesson about civil rights figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. God’s Not Dead 2 is a 2016 Christian-themed movie starring Melissa Joan Hart and directed by Harold Cronk.
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