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Directed by Leslea Mair & Leif Kaldor
2016, Canada, 86 min
Shot across North America and the UK over two years, the documentary provides a first look inside The Clergy Project. Losing Our Religion is a feature length documentary about preachers who are not believers, and what atheists do when they miss church. Allowed access to the 600 members of The Clergy Project – a safe haven for preachers from all faiths who no longer believe – the documentary follows ex-members and clergy who are still undercover. They are not just losing their religion, many are losing their friends, their community and even their families as well as their jobs. As events unfold that change lives forever, their stories also connect with secular communities that are growing in surprising places. Losing Our Religion is a documentary about community, acceptance, and it provides a view inside the complicated lives of the clergy who are stranded in the rising tide of non-believers.
