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A Sampling of Institutional LDS Cinema: "On the Way Home" and "The Mountain of the Lord"

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Written by Brent Leavitt

The Mormon cinema movement of 1999 was a false façade of sorts enshrouded with ambiguity and uncertainty. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been producing and distributing films since the birth of the cinema itself. If there was some aspect of the cinema that was uniquely new about this theatrical product, it was the most under looked element of the equation, the marketing of Mormon cinema.

 

"Lest I Make My Brother To Offend"

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Written by Brent Leavitt

As children of God, one of many blessings accompanying human beings is the ability to discern good from evil. A profound benefit of increased Christian discipleship is a deepened understanding of the workings of the Holy Ghost. As we grow older, white and black swirl together into a gray indiscernible to the natural eye. Hopefully, we will always be discerning through the Spirit of God to clearly know black from white and right from wrong.