Faith on the Front Lines

Director Cheryl Griffin-Allison and Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison participating in Dallas Pride Parade 2025.

The film was born somewhere between mile markers, Starbucks coffee, and the long ribbon of highway stretching from Golden, Colorado, to Dallas, Texas. As the mountains gave way to plains, Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison and her wife, Cheryl, found themselves in a conversation that refused to stay casual. News alerts chimed in, protests filled their social feeds, and the weight of the moment in the United States pressed in from all sides. They talked about the atrocities unfolding in real time—attacks on bodily autonomy, racial violence, the targeting of LGBTQ+ communities – and about the righteous anger rising in the streets and in the pews. Rachel spoke as a pastor who had stepped many times onto front lines: locking arms at protests, opening sanctuaries for immigrants being profiled, and fighting injustices in collars and stoles as living symbols of sacred resistance.

That car ride became a kind of holy ground. Rachel spoke not only as a witness, but as a pastor who knew how quickly this work gets forgotten or flattened by history.

Cheryl listened, asked questions, and named what kept surfacing between them: someone needed to document this.

This film would be an act of preservation – an archive for future generations who would one day ask, What did pastors do when everything felt like it was unraveling? Not just the headlines, but the full, complicated truth of pastoral work in a time of crisis: the grief, the fury, the hope, and the deep theological conviction that resistance itself can be sacred. It would answer with living testimony: voices and stories preserved so that this era’s faithful defiance, both public and hidden, would not be erased or forgotten.