From Silver Screen to Sacred Home: Transforming Places of Entertainment Into Spaces of Worship

Forward Christian Community (Forward) is an evangelical church that incorporates Christendom and Jewish traditions into its worship and repurposes an unconventional/commercial spacea former movie theater. Forward started as subsidiary ministry of a larger evangelical church community before becoming its own independent church community separated from its mother church. In this article, I argue that Forward has developed a new vision of how church can take place through its founding members' shared past and experiences at their mother churchtheir cultural memory. The conventional-unconventional form of church they developed is manifested through a new form of church space.