My wife and I enjoyed this movie, we watched it at home on BluRay from our local library. It is a movie from the book of the same title, written by the protagonist so we can assume that, aside from a few creative details, it is highly accurate.
Most of this took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mike Vogel is Chicago newspaper reporter Lee Strobel, also with legal training. He is a definite avowed Atheist, he doesn't believe in anything that he can't see direct evidence for. And that includes what he considers the delusion that is Christianity.
Lee is married and with a young daughter. They also have a newborn son during this period. His loving wife is Erika Christensen as Leslie Strobel, her beliefs are not as strong as Lee's but she goes along with him. Until one evening at a restaurant their daughter chokes, almost dies, but a nurse also dining steps in and saves the girl. When the nurse witnesses that she was supposed to be somewhere else that night, but her being there must have been divine guidance.
Leslie becomes interested in what the lady says, ends up going to her church with her, and starts to establish herself as a Christian. But this enrages Lee, later saying he really thought it would result in their divorce. But he consulted with some of his older and wise friends and decided to conduct a very in-depth investigation, to prove that the bedrock of Christianity, the death and resurrection of Jesus, is false.
So that is what most of the middle of the movie is about, his seeking answers, involving travel to a number of places and sessions with some of the foremost experts. In the process he became a believer, what he found was evidence so overwhelming that as he said, it would take more "faith" to deny its validity than to believe it is true.
Today Lee Strobel is a minister and a pastor in The Woodlands, just north of Houston, TX.
Most of this took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mike Vogel is Chicago newspaper reporter Lee Strobel, also with legal training. He is a definite avowed Atheist, he doesn't believe in anything that he can't see direct evidence for. And that includes what he considers the delusion that is Christianity.
Lee is married and with a young daughter. They also have a newborn son during this period. His loving wife is Erika Christensen as Leslie Strobel, her beliefs are not as strong as Lee's but she goes along with him. Until one evening at a restaurant their daughter chokes, almost dies, but a nurse also dining steps in and saves the girl. When the nurse witnesses that she was supposed to be somewhere else that night, but her being there must have been divine guidance.
Leslie becomes interested in what the lady says, ends up going to her church with her, and starts to establish herself as a Christian. But this enrages Lee, later saying he really thought it would result in their divorce. But he consulted with some of his older and wise friends and decided to conduct a very in-depth investigation, to prove that the bedrock of Christianity, the death and resurrection of Jesus, is false.
So that is what most of the middle of the movie is about, his seeking answers, involving travel to a number of places and sessions with some of the foremost experts. In the process he became a believer, what he found was evidence so overwhelming that as he said, it would take more "faith" to deny its validity than to believe it is true.
Today Lee Strobel is a minister and a pastor in The Woodlands, just north of Houston, TX.