Roots Core Team member and officer junior Elliot Ryu hopes that showing a movie can help students relax a little and gain more insight into the Christian faith.

“It’s an annual tradition before finals to watch some kind of Christian movie and just relax,” Ryu said. “We all knew that it’s a good movie from previous accounts, and so from hearing that [junior] Tiffany [Yu] had the movie already we thought it was a good idea [to show it].”

Co-President senior Cynthia Shen believes that the movie not only illuminates how important it is for Christians defend their faith despite opposition, but also recognize other viewpoints.

“We chose this movie because it’s a really good movie and it provides a lot of different stories even though it’s based on this one character,” Shen said. “It gives insight into other religions and people with different backgrounds and family situations, but at the same time, it is intellectual too.”

The club showed the movie during their Monday meetings in adviser Margaret Platt’s room, C104. The officers were enthusiastic about the movie and believe it offers a powerful message to fellow Christians.

“I watched the movie with my family about a year ago, and a couple of the officers have seen the movie who really liked it, so we wanted to show it,” Shen said. “Last year, Roots Christian Club showed the movie, ‘The Prince of Egypt’, even though it’s cartoonish.”

Co-President senior Michelle Hsieh hopes that students can feel empowered by the movie’s message, and hopes students will stand up for their faith regardless of the circumstances, just as the main character did.

“At the very end of the movie, it tells everyone to text all their contacts, ‘God is not dead’, so it’s a very interactive movie, and shows everyone here to reach out even if things might not be in their favor,” Hsieh said. “In the movie, the guy is the minority of so many students, but at the end, he was able to show or expose to students that God is real.”