Professor of film, Terry Lindvall, occupies the C. S. Lewis Chair of Communication and Christian Thought at Virginia Wesleyan University and has authored a dozen books, including The Silents of God (2001), Sanctuary Cinema (2007), Divine Film Comedies (2015), and God Mocks (2016). He is presently producing a feature documentary film on his God on the Big Screen: A History of Prayer from the Silent Cinema to Today (2019).