Questioning Faith: Confessions of a Seminarian

In these troubled times, what's a young preacher to preach? After experiencing life at its most devastating, is it possible to believe in God? Why does one person find religion in the midst of chaos, while another loses it? The documentary follows minister-in-training Macky Alston as he searches for the ways people find meaning in life when sometimes nothing seems to make sense. During his quest, he encounters people with a wide range of religious backgrounds and beliefs, from born-again Christians to Muslims, from atheists to Buddhists to Orthodox Jews. The chronicle begins with the untimely death of Alston's seminary classmate Alan Smith, challenging everything he was raised to believe about a loving and all-powerful god. Over the course of the film, he studies with cutting-edge theologians, works as a hospital chaplain, and talks to people wrestling with similar questions.

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