What If the Bible Was Outlawed in America? Actor Brett Varvel Explores The Scary Idea

For believers in China, persecution and oppression aren’t abstract ideas to be debated; they are reality.

That lived experience for Christians in the People’s Republic of China — an unabashedly communist nation — served as a muse for actor Brett Varvel, who stars in and directs “Disciples in the Moonlight,” a film set in the American midwest and exploring what it might look like if Christianity and the Bible were outlawed in the United States.

To understand the crux of Varvel’s movie, though, viewers need to grasp what’s happening to Christians in China.

The evangelization of China was on the rise in the late 20th century, though there’s evidence from the Pew Research Center suggesting it has since slowed . Nevertheless, the CCP, alarmed by the number of Christians in the country