The Printing: Staying Faithful in Persecution

Date: November 19, 2024
Host: Jim Schneider
​Guest: Dr. Lonnie Polson
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Dr. Lonnie Polson is Professor of Communications and Chairman of the Division of Communications at Bob Jones University.  He’s taught numerous communication classes in speech, acting, performing literation, advanced stage directing and more.  He has acted in or directed over 50 stage productions including the film discussed on this broadcast. He also serves as a pastor in Greenville, South Carolina.

There are many Christians today, including pastors, who are denying the Lord, maybe not in word, but in their actions as they compromise with this world.

This kind of activity is portrayed in the powerful production of the remastered film from 1990 called, The Printing.  This movie is based upon real life experiences of people in the former Soviet Union in the early 1980’s.

The Printing dramatically demonstrates the risk taken by Christians, not to merely smuggle Bibles into the Soviet Union, but to print the Scriptures there.  Hear the excerpts that Jim presents while Dr. Polson follows up with his comments.  Dr. Polson also discusses his acting role in the movie as a KGB officer, how the movie impacted him and how important the theme of this movie is to our current generation.

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The Printing is a feature length film of 137 minutes.  This DVD also features English, Spanish and German subtitles.  The Printing has now been digitally remastered and is available for a donation of $14.


However, Unusual Films has also digitally remastered Wine of Morning a film produced in 1955 and Sheffey which tells the story of an itinerant circuit-riding preacher committed to proclaiming the Gospel to the mountain folk in the Eastern U.S.  Both are feature length films.  We are also making available what we call The Unusual Film Set containing: The Printing, Wine of Morning and Sheffey for a donation of $28.  Available online at vcy.org or by calling 1-800-729-9829.

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