Jackie Robinson Bio Pic in Theaters April 12

With Opening Day just around the corner, Hollywood will release the movie 42, the legendary story of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American major league ball player. 42 chronicles Robinson's heroic struggles to break baseball's racial barrier. 

What the movie doesn't really explore is Robinson's Christian faith, a little unknown part of his complex life. Also, un-divulged in the movie is that Branch Rickey (played by Harrison Ford), the Dodgers general manager who signed Robinson to a contract, was also a Christian.  

Robinson's biographer Arnold Rampersad describes Robinson's religious turning not as a point-in-time dramatic conversion, but as a process that began in his youth and accelerated when as a young man he was mentored by a dynamic pastor at his church.

While not a Christian movie, 42 will introduce newer generations to this man of great courage and integrity - " A True American Hero". 

Mark your calendar for April 12.  

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