Jesus’ love for stories is well known. He knew that human beings learn better through stories that demonstrate, resonate, and reverberate with their experiences and lives than simply telling them what they ought to do. The goal for Jesus was not just to infuse learning but to provoke “turning” one’s behavior around in a different direction. This required not just a cognitive register in the brain, but a genuine movement of the heart.

What moves your heart? Think about the books you’ve read or the movies you’ve watched. Some will move you to tears, some will make your breath catch in your throat, some will make you gasp, some will make your heart freeze in terror. Stories move us and teach us better than any other mode of learning.

Right now, in movies theatres in this country, you can se…