Fight church

Jonathan Powell  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Nov 2014
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Fight church

Pastors fighting, from the film

Jonathan Powell reviews a controversial film about Christian pastors involved in martial arts

Can you really love your neighbour as yourself while punching him repeatedly in the face?

Fight Church by Daniel Junge and Bryan Storkel is an introduction to several US Christian pastors who are involved in Mixed Martial Arts. MMA is a form of anything-goes cage fighting with little aesthetic beauty and a lot of kneeing people in the face, kicking their shins and raining punches on their face when you’ve managed to get them on the floor.

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