Questioning Faith
Documentary (56 min.)

After experiencing life at its most devastating, how can anyone believe in God‹or in anything, for that matter? What can a young preacher preach in these times? And what is it about human nature that leads one person to find religion in the midst of chaos, and another to lose it? These and other fathomless questions are explored in award-winning director/producer Macky Alstonšs film, Questioning Faith: Confessions of a Seminarian, as he tries to discover how people find meaning in life when absolutely nothing seems to make sense. Alston trains his camera on religion in an era of both enormous doubt and profound faith, employing an emotionally evocative style and engaging people from a wide range of religious backgrounds and beliefs, from born-again Christians to Muslims, from atheists to Buddhists to Orthodox Jews. The personal and spiritual journey chronicled in Questioning Faith begins when filmmaker and minister-in-training Macky Alston is faced with the untimely death of a seminary classmate, challenging everything Alston was raised to believe about a loving, merciful, all-powerful god.