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* NiceHat: The film shows a fabulous array of black church-lady hats. Gina doesn't like them, though, and keeps going off and forgetting them.
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* TheGoodShepherd: Carlton is portrayed as sincerely wanting to do good for his flock and humanity in general.
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It's 1998, and Carlton Pearson (Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor) is leading a fulfilling, if hectic, life running a multiracial Tulsa megachurch while jetting around the country to save souls. However, he's starting to feel overwhelmed by the project: his imprisoned uncle Quincy (Creator/DannyGlover) commits suicide, his organist Reggie (Lakeith Stanfield) is struggling with his homosexuality, and finally he sees a TV report on the genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Rwanda}}, leading him to wonder if all those non-Christian children are really going straight to hell after being brutally murdered. He prays and hears the voice of God telling him that no, those people aren't going to hell because Jesus' sacrifice saved everyone already. When he shares this at church, however, this leads to a split in the congregation as well as a breach in Pearson's relationships, including with his mentor Oral Roberts (Creator/MartinSheen), who believes that Pearson actually heard the voice of the [[{{Satan}} other guy]].
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It's 1998, and Carlton Pearson (Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor) is leading a fulfilling, if hectic, life running a multiracial Tulsa megachurch while jetting around the country to save souls. However, he's starting to feel overwhelmed by the project: his imprisoned uncle Quincy (Creator/DannyGlover) commits suicide, his organist Reggie (Lakeith Stanfield) (Creator/LakeithStanfield) is struggling with his homosexuality, and finally he sees a TV report on the genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Rwanda}}, leading him to wonder if all those non-Christian children are really going straight to hell after being brutally murdered. He prays and hears the voice of God telling him that no, those people aren't going to hell because Jesus' sacrifice saved everyone already. When he shares this at church, however, this leads to a split in the congregation as well as a breach in Pearson's relationships, including with his mentor Oral Roberts (Creator/MartinSheen), who believes that Pearson actually heard the voice of the [[{{Satan}} other guy]].
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* BeardOfSorrow: Carlton sports a finely groomed pencil-mustache for most of the film, but as his CrisisOfFaith starts seriously taking its toll on him, he grows a full beard.
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* BeardOfSorrow: Carlton sports a finely groomed pencil-mustache for most of the film, but as his CrisisOfFaith starts seriously taking its toll on him, him as he loses his job, he grows a full beard.
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* BeardOfSorrow: Carlton sports a finely groomed pencil-mustache for most of the film, but as his CrisisOfFaith starts seriously taking its toll on him, he grows a full beard.
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* CrisisOfFaith: Somewhat. While Carlton never seems to lose faith in the basics--God, Jesus, the Bible--he does have a painful reckoning with some of the traditional doctrines, and later admits to Oral Roberts that he feels "lost."
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* CrisisOfFaith: Somewhat. While Carlton never seems to lose faith in the basics--God, basics -- God, Jesus, the Bible--he Bible -- he does have a painful reckoning with some of the traditional doctrines, and later admits to Oral Roberts that he feels "lost."
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* TitleDrop: A few days after Carlton's first universalist sermon, Oral Roberts meets with him and says that "come Sunday" this will all be worked out and things can go back to normal.
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* GodIsGood: Carlton firmly believes it, but finds this increasingly difficult to reconcile with a God who sends people to eternal torment. During one sermon he even tells the flock that in some ways the God they've been worshipping is "a monster," which doesn't exactly go over well.
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* GodIsGood: Carlton firmly believes it, but finds and for him this increasingly difficult to reconcile with a God who sends people to overrules the tradition about eternal torment. During one sermon he even tells the flock that in some ways the God they've been worshipping is "a monster," which doesn't exactly go over well.
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''Come Sunday'' is a film produced by ''Radio/ThisAmericanLife'' based on a true story that the radio show first reported about a successful Pentecostal bishop who gets into hot water when he dissents from the traditional doctrine of eternal damnation.
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[[caption-width-right:350:A heresy trial by any other name...]]''Come Sunday'' is a film produced by ''Radio/ThisAmericanLife'' based on a true story that the radio show first reported about a successful Pentecostal bishop who gets into hot water when he dissents from the traditional doctrine of eternal damnation.
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* KarmaHoudini: The fear of this is a driving force for Carlton's critics. When the Council of African-American Bishops calls Carlton to account, one bishop says that while he loved his abusive father, "hell is where he belongs."
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* KarmaHoudini: The fear of this is a driving force for Carlton's critics. When the Council College of African-American Bishops calls Carlton to account, one bishop says that while he loved his abusive father, "hell is where he belongs."
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* SexyPriest: Gina says that women were throwing themselves at Carlton while he was still single, and that after they married "the balcony emptied out."
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* SexyPriest: Gina says that women were throwing themselves at Carlton while he was still single, and that after they married "the balcony emptied out.""
*TitleDrop: A few days after Carlton's first universalist sermon, Oral Roberts meets with him and says that "come Sunday" this will all be worked out and things can go back to normal.
*TitleDrop: A few days after Carlton's first universalist sermon, Oral Roberts meets with him and says that "come Sunday" this will all be worked out and things can go back to normal.
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* FreezeFrameEnding: The film closes by freezing on Carlton in mid-sermon at a progressive church.
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* MarriedToTheJob: Gina says that she knew going in that Carlton's first love is the church. She accepts this but does feel frustratingly invisible sometimes.
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* MarriedToTheJob: Gina says that she knew going in that Carlton's In the first love is the church. She scene, Carlton tells another character that he was brought up to believe that marriage and children would be a distraction for a pastor, so he got married with mixed feelings. Gina accepts this that his vocation comes first, but does feel frustratingly invisible sometimes.
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''Come Sunday'' is a film produced by ''Radio/ThisAmericanLife'' based on a true story that the radio show first reported about a successful Pentecostal bishop who gets into hot water when he dissents from the traditional doctrine of eternal damnation.
It's 1998, and Carlton Pearson (Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor) is leading a fulfilling, if hectic, life running a multiracial Tulsa megachurch while jetting around the country to save souls. However, he's starting to feel overwhelmed by the project: his imprisoned uncle Quincy (Creator/DannyGlover) commits suicide, his organist Reggie (Lakeith Stanfield) is struggling with his homosexuality, and finally he sees a TV report on the genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Rwanda}}, leading him to wonder if all those non-Christian children are really going straight to hell after being brutally murdered. He prays and hears the voice of God telling him that no, those people aren't going to hell because Jesus' sacrifice saved everyone already. When he shares this at church, however, this leads to a split in the congregation as well as a breach in Pearson's relationships, including with his mentor Oral Roberts (Creator/MartinSheen), who believes that Pearson actually heard the voice of the [[{{Satan}} other guy]].
First seen at Sundance, the film was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2018.
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*AsTheGoodBookSays: Not surprisingly, there's a lot of Scripture-quoting going on in the film, most dramatically when Carlton has his right-hand man Henry (Creator/JasonSegel) read aloud from 1 John 2 ("He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.").
*BothSidesHaveAPoint: While the film tells the story from Carlton's viewpoint, his opponents are portrayed sympathetically, and reasonably question Carlton's undoing so much of the work that he did and the relationships he built on account of HearingVoices.
*CainAndAbel: It's hinted that this is going on between Carlton, whom Oral Roberts regards as "my black son," and Oral's biological son Richard. When Richard denounces Carlton on TV, Carlton says he'd been wanting to do that for 25 years.
*CrisisOfFaith: Somewhat. While Carlton never seems to lose faith in the basics--God, Jesus, the Bible--he does have a painful reckoning with some of the traditional doctrines, and later admits to Oral Roberts that he feels "lost."
*DrivenToSuicide:
**Uncle Quincy hangs himself after he's sentenced to six more years in jail after drugs were found in his cell.
**The suicide of Oral Roberts' gay son Ronnie is also mentioned, though not seen.
*{{Gayngst}}: Very much a JustifiedTrope given the circumstances. Reggie is devoted to the church and to Carlton, but even after Carlton comes to believe in universal salvation, he takes longer to shake the idea that homosexuality is sinful. This also clearly happened to Oral Roberts' son Ronnie, who was DrivenToSuicide.
*FreezeFrameEnding: The film closes by freezing on Carlton in mid-sermon at a progressive church.
*GodBeforeDogma: The film makes clear that hearing the voice of God was the decisive moment for Carlton that induced him to question church doctrine. He only later finds Scriptures to back it up.
*GodIsGood: Carlton firmly believes it, but finds this increasingly difficult to reconcile with a God who sends people to eternal torment. During one sermon he even tells the flock that in some ways the God they've been worshipping is "a monster," which doesn't exactly go over well.
*TheGoodShepherd: Carlton is portrayed as sincerely wanting to do good for his flock and humanity in general.
*ItsAllAboutMe: Some of Carlton's friends and relatives call him out on his ego, and the fact that he expects everyone to just go along with whatever his agenda is. At one point they discuss a poster for the church's Easter service, of which Carlton's wife says that Carlton's head is too big for the font. Reggie remarks dryly that "we can't make Carlton's head smaller."
*KarmaHoudini: The fear of this is a driving force for Carlton's critics. When the Council of African-American Bishops calls Carlton to account, one bishop says that while he loved his abusive father, "hell is where he belongs."
*LeavingAudience: While Carlton is preaching his newfound belief in universal salvation, a number of his congregants walk out of the church.
*MarriageBeforeRomance: Carlton's wife, Gina, says that their union was almost an ArrangedMarriage, because it wouldn't do to have a 40-year-old single SexyPriest leading a family church. But they did come to love each other, and going through Carlton's crisis eventually brings them closer together.
*MarriedToTheJob: Gina says that she knew going in that Carlton's first love is the church. She accepts this but does feel frustratingly invisible sometimes.
*MrExposition: During the opening credits, a man introducing Carlton at one of his speaking gigs helpfully explains the bishop's background and current success for the audience.
*MyGreatestFailure: Oral Roberts says that his is that he couldn't save his son Ronnie.
*NiceHat: The film shows a fabulous array of black church-lady hats. Gina doesn't like them, though, and keeps going off and forgetting them.
*SexyPriest: Gina says that women were throwing themselves at Carlton while he was still single, and that after they married "the balcony emptied out."
It's 1998, and Carlton Pearson (Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor) is leading a fulfilling, if hectic, life running a multiracial Tulsa megachurch while jetting around the country to save souls. However, he's starting to feel overwhelmed by the project: his imprisoned uncle Quincy (Creator/DannyGlover) commits suicide, his organist Reggie (Lakeith Stanfield) is struggling with his homosexuality, and finally he sees a TV report on the genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Rwanda}}, leading him to wonder if all those non-Christian children are really going straight to hell after being brutally murdered. He prays and hears the voice of God telling him that no, those people aren't going to hell because Jesus' sacrifice saved everyone already. When he shares this at church, however, this leads to a split in the congregation as well as a breach in Pearson's relationships, including with his mentor Oral Roberts (Creator/MartinSheen), who believes that Pearson actually heard the voice of the [[{{Satan}} other guy]].
First seen at Sundance, the film was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2018.
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!!This film includes examples of:
*AsTheGoodBookSays: Not surprisingly, there's a lot of Scripture-quoting going on in the film, most dramatically when Carlton has his right-hand man Henry (Creator/JasonSegel) read aloud from 1 John 2 ("He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.").
*BothSidesHaveAPoint: While the film tells the story from Carlton's viewpoint, his opponents are portrayed sympathetically, and reasonably question Carlton's undoing so much of the work that he did and the relationships he built on account of HearingVoices.
*CainAndAbel: It's hinted that this is going on between Carlton, whom Oral Roberts regards as "my black son," and Oral's biological son Richard. When Richard denounces Carlton on TV, Carlton says he'd been wanting to do that for 25 years.
*CrisisOfFaith: Somewhat. While Carlton never seems to lose faith in the basics--God, Jesus, the Bible--he does have a painful reckoning with some of the traditional doctrines, and later admits to Oral Roberts that he feels "lost."
*DrivenToSuicide:
**Uncle Quincy hangs himself after he's sentenced to six more years in jail after drugs were found in his cell.
**The suicide of Oral Roberts' gay son Ronnie is also mentioned, though not seen.
*{{Gayngst}}: Very much a JustifiedTrope given the circumstances. Reggie is devoted to the church and to Carlton, but even after Carlton comes to believe in universal salvation, he takes longer to shake the idea that homosexuality is sinful. This also clearly happened to Oral Roberts' son Ronnie, who was DrivenToSuicide.
*FreezeFrameEnding: The film closes by freezing on Carlton in mid-sermon at a progressive church.
*GodBeforeDogma: The film makes clear that hearing the voice of God was the decisive moment for Carlton that induced him to question church doctrine. He only later finds Scriptures to back it up.
*GodIsGood: Carlton firmly believes it, but finds this increasingly difficult to reconcile with a God who sends people to eternal torment. During one sermon he even tells the flock that in some ways the God they've been worshipping is "a monster," which doesn't exactly go over well.
*TheGoodShepherd: Carlton is portrayed as sincerely wanting to do good for his flock and humanity in general.
*ItsAllAboutMe: Some of Carlton's friends and relatives call him out on his ego, and the fact that he expects everyone to just go along with whatever his agenda is. At one point they discuss a poster for the church's Easter service, of which Carlton's wife says that Carlton's head is too big for the font. Reggie remarks dryly that "we can't make Carlton's head smaller."
*KarmaHoudini: The fear of this is a driving force for Carlton's critics. When the Council of African-American Bishops calls Carlton to account, one bishop says that while he loved his abusive father, "hell is where he belongs."
*LeavingAudience: While Carlton is preaching his newfound belief in universal salvation, a number of his congregants walk out of the church.
*MarriageBeforeRomance: Carlton's wife, Gina, says that their union was almost an ArrangedMarriage, because it wouldn't do to have a 40-year-old single SexyPriest leading a family church. But they did come to love each other, and going through Carlton's crisis eventually brings them closer together.
*MarriedToTheJob: Gina says that she knew going in that Carlton's first love is the church. She accepts this but does feel frustratingly invisible sometimes.
*MrExposition: During the opening credits, a man introducing Carlton at one of his speaking gigs helpfully explains the bishop's background and current success for the audience.
*MyGreatestFailure: Oral Roberts says that his is that he couldn't save his son Ronnie.
*NiceHat: The film shows a fabulous array of black church-lady hats. Gina doesn't like them, though, and keeps going off and forgetting them.
*SexyPriest: Gina says that women were throwing themselves at Carlton while he was still single, and that after they married "the balcony emptied out."
