We didn’t talk about it before we filmed-we wanted the conversation to be raw and real. I decided (giving warning to my friends) that we should see it and then give our thoughts. I heard many people talk about the nudity and (excuse the next graphic language) the sexual movements of couples, considering if those elements had a place in a “Christian film.” I began to wonder if it was “right” for me to watch it. When Rivers began tweeting about the film the Christian community went crazy. The film was many years on the drafting block for various reasons. The popularity of the book made many of us desire a film and Rivers herself longed for a contract. I understand why Rivers is so protective of it. For many of us, the thought that our Lord pursues us the way that Michael Hosea pursued Angel or the picture of Isreal in Hosea was so moving that it brought us to tears. The controversy even then was that the book was a “gateway to soft porn.”įor me, my daughter and many of my friends, Redeeming Love was a powerful book. It had mixed results as a novel, Rivers has a way of writing than can be a little steamy to an innocent mind. That’s amazing for a Christian author.maybe any author. Since then it has sold over three million copies. In 1991, Francine Rivers published a book called Redeeming Love.
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