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+profile GOD’S REPORTER Journalist Lee Strobel’s investigation made him a Christian; His ‘Case for Christ’ comes out on DVD this month nounced she had become a Christian. “My wife invited me to church one day,” Strobel recalls. The visit and her conversion started him on his investigative path. He says his intention was to wrest his wife from “this cult that she had gotten herself involved in,” utilizing his skill as a reporter. After a year and nine months of traveling the country, he evaluated evidence gathered from some of the leading minds on the subject from the fields of science, theology, philosophy and history. “Nov. 8 of 1981, I took a legal pad and wrote down the evidence for and against [a divine Jesus],” he recalls. “Really, that was the day when everything crystallized for me.” Instead of proving Jesus a myth, Strobel became a Christian. I BY STEPHANIE PRANGE t might come as a surprise that Christian writer Lee Strobel has several documentaries about Evel Knievel in his video collection. It’s not that Strobel is a fan of daredevil stunts, an aficionado of 1970s culture, or even a big video collector (“I’m more of a print guy,” he says.). He picked up the videos about the famous stuntman because Knievel, like Strobel, has become a believer. An atheist-turned-Christian, Strobel is a former awarded-winning legal reporter for The Chicago Tribune who used his journalistic expertise to investigate perhaps the greatest story ever told, the story of Jesus. It was an experience that changed his life and resulted in the best-selling book The Case for Christ, available this month on DVD from Lionsgate and La Mirada Films. It all began in 1979, when Strobel’s wife, Leslie, threw him a curve ball and an- “It was an emotional journey,” Strobel says. “It was a cumulative case. It wasn’t really one thing. It was a body of evidence. One of the key bits of evidence was that the STROBEL’S NEW DVD “The visual presentation really does amplify your message. It can be more powerful than the book to some people,” Strobel says. followers of Jesus were willing to die for what they knew was true.” Strobel is delighted that The Case for Christ has made its way to DVD. There was a long gap between the book’s arrival in 1998 and the release of a DVD this month. BOOKS STROBEL’S WORK A listing of his books for further study appears as an extra feature on the DVD of The Case for Christ. 8 CHRISTIAN ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW / SEPTEMBER 2007

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