What does baseball have to do with religion? More than you’d think. Baseball: Beyond Belief explores the profound, sometimes unlikely relationship between America’s pastime and the world’s great faith traditions, through the eyes of players, coaches, chaplains, rabbis, imams, and priests who have sat together in the same dugout.
Directed by Emmy Award–winning filmmaker John Scheinfeld (Dick Van Dyke, PBS American Masters), the film weaves together MLB archival footage, intimate interviews with Joe Torre and Curtis Granderson, and the voices of faith leaders across traditions. The result is a film about far more than baseball, it’s about how ritual, community, hope, and grace show up in the least expected places.
Join us for a screening of this film followed by a discussion with John Sexton, whose book, Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game, the film is based on. John Sexton served as president of New York University from 2001 through 2015.
Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome.