Editor’s Note: This is the second in an ongoing series of articles looking at films and their nontraditional correspondences with my faith. Click here for the first installment.

When I first begin exploring this very challenging question of a “holy form” in cinema, I thought it would be beneficial to begin by examining the very nature of the cinematic medium. What is it in the form of film that makes it so effective on a spiritual level—that gives us those goosebumps and provides those occasional “holy moments” of transcendence?