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In a futuristic world, a human fights heresy on behalf of the Christian church and goes to challenge a new church on a different planet, only to find out from its creators is a giant lie. Though he does his job and destroys the heresy, it destroys his already wavering faith.

After discovering the remnants left by an extinct extraterrestrial species, a Jesuit astrophysicist asks the spirit of Father Loyola what there’s left for a Christian like him to believe.

One night while visiting his mother, a man contends with the nature of faith and family.

Jeremiah, an atheist and an in-debt adjunct media studies professor, arrives at his Calvinist in-laws’ for Christmas, where he must deliver the Christmas dinner prayer and mend his strained relationship with his wife.

A reverend is missing and his fiance along with his friend are looking for him and the reason he disappeared. A reverend's fiance and friend are worried about his disappearance, especially after he has seemed to take an interest in science more than religion.

A Louisiana boy educated by God-fearing Catholics is taught to abstain from masturbation and rather think of it as self-harm. Instead, he sets out on a tumultuous relationship with his sexuality, and comes to question whether or not he truly agrees with the church's teachings about what is and is not sin.

A priest is the god of his own universe, but struggles to understand how he came to be. He takes in a young pupil to relieve himself of godhood.

After dropping out of the Jesuit priesthood, a struggling graduate student studying theology meets a fellow Catholic graduate student. The two explore their sexual desires irrespective of what the Church has taught them.

A middle-aged man watches his vulnerable older sister slip into the clutches of a religious cult.

In the 19th century, a man convinces people that he is either a madman or an incarnation of God. As he oscillates from identity to identity, the people who know him vacillate between reverence and disgust.