The Arts & Faith Top 100 for 2025 with Brian Duignan and Reed Lackey

 

Images from (Clockwise, from top left: THE FLORIDA PROJECT, THE GREEN KNIGHT, THE SEVENTH SEAL, SILENCE, CHILDREN OF MEN, and THE EXORCIST

Arts & Faith community members Lindsey Dunn, Reed Lackey, and Brian Duignan met up to discuss the newly released Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films List for 2025. This is the 7th such list that Arts & Faith has made as a group. Films can be considered spiritually significant for many reasons, usually a film that provokes spiritual meditation or the film has been formative in a group member’s personal spiritual journey. This year's list was created by 31 jurors.

To see the full Arts & Faith Top 100 List, previous versions of the list, and other projects the group has worked on, please visit artsandfaith.com. You can also use that website to inquire if you would like to join the group.

To hear part 1 of this Arts & Faith Discussion, please tune in to the Fear of God podcast episode dated April 22, 2025 to hear a more detailed history of the group, how and why it got started. https://www.thefearofgodpodcast.com/blog/artsandfaith

Please search the 1 of my Stories podcast feed if you would like to hear the episodes about the 2024 ecumenical jury and the Top 25 Crime and Punishment Films.

Brian Duignan is a family medicine doctor who developed a passion for film around age 10. His love for film was re-ignited in 2010 when he connected with the Arts & Faith community. He believes you demonstrate your love for God, others, and film by giving those things his deepest attention. Follow Brian at his ScreenAttention website: screenattention.com/

Reed Lackey is a film critic with NC Film Critics and is the co-host of the Fear of God podcast. He is a lover of all things horror, but even more than that, he loves discussing those stories with his friends (or whomever will listen). So he spends his days in southern California with his wife and son writing, reading, working, watching movies & TV, and having as many meaningful conversations as possible about all of the interesting stories all around us, and how we find ourselves in them. You can find him at thefearofgodpodcast.com

Lindsey Dunn is a film critic with membership in both NC Film Critics and Southeastern Film Critics. She loves all things Cobra Kai, Netflix Dark, indie horror, and any stories about complicated relationships. You can find her at 1ofmystories.com and most social channels @1ofmystories.