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The Trifecta: What Football, the Marines, and a Lifetime of Coaching Taught Dr. Scott Glenn About Heroes from Heaven
Oct 20, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment biblical storytelling cinema, Christian epic film 2026, Dr. Scott Glenn filmmaker, faith and perseverance, faith based epic cinema, football and filmmaking, Heroes from Heaven film, independent film development, Marine Corps resilience, WVU Tech Hall of Fame Features, NewsThere is a word to describe Dr. Scott Glenn that stops you when you hear it. Not filmmaker. Not screenwriter. Not academic, though he is all of those things. Trifecta. Player. Marine. Coach and Teacher. Three complete and demanding schools of human formation, each one building on the last, each one contributing something irreplaceable to the man who sat down and built one of the most ambitious stories in the history of faith-based cinema. To underst...
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The Long Game: How the Legal Strategy Behind Brown v. Board of Education Was Chess at Its Highest Level
Oct 12, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment Brown v Board of Education legal strategy, Brown v Board Supreme Court, Charles Hamilton Houston NAACP, civil rights legal campaign, civil rights strategy history, NAACP Legal Defense Fund strategy, Robert Carter civil rights attorney, school desegregation legal history, Through His Lens documentary, Thurgood Marshall chess strategy Other ProjectsThe greatest chess players in history do not win by responding to what is on the board in front of them. They win by seeing ten moves ahead, by sacrificing pieces with purpose, by building pressure so gradually and so precisely that by the time their opponent realizes what is happening the outcome is already determined. Charles Hamilton Houston saw the board that way. So did Thurgood Marshall. As did Robert Carter. The legal campaign that produced Brow...
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Two Visions of Faith on Film: Heroes from Heaven and The Chosen
Oct 5, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment biblical epic cinema, biblical storytelling film, Christian film 2026, Dallas Jenkins The Chosen, faith based entertainment, faith based movie investment, faith cinema global audience, faith film audience, Heroes from Heaven film, The Chosen TV series comparison Marketing, NewsSomething remarkable is happening in faith-based entertainment and it did not happen by accident. More than 280 million viewers in 175 countries have seen The Chosen, the multi season drama about the life of Jesus Christ created by Dallas Jenkins and funded through crowdfunding, becoming the most successful crowd funded TV series in history. The goal was to deliver the series to one billion viewers worldwide and based on its trajectory that ambition do...
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Four Dolls and a Supreme Court: How Kenneth and Mamie Clark Changed Constitutional Law
Oct 5, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment Brown v Board of Education psychology, civil rights history, doll test civil rights, Kenneth Clark doll study, Mamie Clark psychologist, NAACP Legal Defense Fund strategy, school segregation children, segregation psychological harm, Supreme Court social science evidence, Through His Lens documentary Other ProjectsThe experiment was simple enough that a child could participate in it. That was precisely the point. Four dolls. Identical in every way except color; two white, two brown. Children between the ages of three and seven seated across from the researcher. A series of straightforward requests: show me the nice doll, show me the bad doll, show me the doll you would like to play with, show me the doll that looks like you. The results were striking. Black c...
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The Return of the Epic: Why Biblical Scale Storytelling Is Cinema’s Next Great Frontier
Sep 28, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment Ben Hur Ten Commandments legacy, biblical epic cinema history, biblical scale cinema, Christian epic film 2026, Dr. Scott Glenn filmmaker, epic storytelling film, faith based films box office, faith cinema renaissance, Heroes from Heaven film, Sound of Freedom box office Features, NewsThe Return of the Epic: Why Biblical Scale Storytelling Is Cinema's Next Great Frontier Cecil B. DeMille stood before the audience at the premiere of The Ten Commandments in 1956 and said something that has echoed through the history of cinema ever since. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is not just a motion picture. It is a testament to the human spirit and the enduring power of faith." He was right. Seventy years later the industry is discovering that ...
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The Lie Written Into Law: What Separate But Equal Actually Looked Like
Sep 28, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment Black schools Jim Crow South, Brown v Board of Education schools, civil rights education history, Jim Crow education inequality, Plessy v Ferguson education, school segregation history, segregated schools conditions, separate but equal history, Through His Lens documentary Other ProjectsThe phrase separate but equal has a certain legal tidiness to it. Four words. A comma in the middle. The suggestion of balance, that what is divided can still be fair, that what is separated need not be unequal. It is the kind of language that works beautifully in a courtroom argument or in the press and fails completely when you walk through the door of a Black school in the American South in 1950 and look at what is actually there. What was actually ...
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The War Within: Romans 7:15 and the Soul of Heroes from Heaven
Sep 20, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment biblical storytelling cinema, biblical themes in film, Christian film 2026, Dr. Scott Glenn screenplay, faith and film, faith based epic film, Heroes from Heaven film, Romans 7:15 biblical meaning, seven deadly sins film, seven deadly sins scripture MarketingThere is a verse in the book of Romans that has stopped readers in their tracks for over two thousand years. Paul writes in Romans 7:15: "For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do, this I keep on doing." In eight words Paul captures something that every human being who has ever lived has felt at some point, the gap between who we intend to be and who we actually are when no one is watching, when the pressure is on, when...
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It Started With a Bus: The Story of Harry Briggs and the Case That Started It All
Sep 20, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment Briggs v Elliott, Brown v Board of Education plaintiffs, civil rights history, civil rights plaintiffs stories, Clarendon County school segregation, Harry Briggs South Carolina, NAACP legal history, school desegregation cases, separate but equal history, Through His Lens documentary Other ProjectsBefore there was Brown v. Board of Education there was a school bus. Or rather there wasn't one, and that absence set in motion a chain of events that would change the course of American history. In Clarendon County, South Carolina in the late 1940s the disparity between Black and white education was not subtle. It was written into the state constitution. Article 11 of South Carolina's 1896 Constitution stated plainly that separate schools shall be pro...
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Before the Camera Rolls: What 27 International Awards Tell Us About Heroes from Heaven
Sep 13, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment biblical storytelling film, Christian film development, Dr. Scott Glenn screenplay, faith based film awards, faith based movie investment, faith epic cinema, Heroes from Heaven film, international screenplay awards, seven continents film festival, unproduced screenplay recognition Awards, MarketingIn the film industry, awards are usually the last chapter of the story. The movie gets made, it gets seen, and if it connects with audiences and critics in the right way, recognition follows. That is the normal sequence. Production comes first. Validation comes after. Heroes from Heaven has turned that sequence entirely upside down. With more than 27 international awards and selections spanning every inhabited continent on earth, Heroes from Heaven ...
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The Keel Behind the Wind: Robert L. Carter and the Legal Battle That Changed America
Sep 13, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment Brown v Board of Education, civil rights attorneys, civil rights movement history, Kenneth Clark doll study, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Robert L. Carter, school desegregation history, Supreme Court civil rights cases, Through His Lens documentary, Thurgood Marshall legal team Other ProjectsWhen people think of the legal team that dismantled school segregation in America, one name rises above all others: Thurgood Marshall, and rightfully so. Marshall was the architect, the visionary, the force of nature who built the NAACP Legal Defense Fund into the most consequential legal organization in American history. However, behind every great architect stands someone who makes sure the building doesn't fall down. For Thurgood Marshall, that pers...
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