{"id":10637,"date":"2015-11-04T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=10637"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:25:09","slug":"gods-not-dead-2-trailer-release-is-finally-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2015\/11\/gods-not-dead-2-trailer-release-is-finally-here.html","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Not Dead 2: Trailer Release is Finally Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Fq6lG4GeEMI<\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to the most successful independent faith film of 2014 is finally here!\u00a0<em><strong>God&#8217;s Not Dead 2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>will be hitting theaters on April 1, 2016 but you can get a sneak peak of the upcoming film above in the new trailer just released.<\/p>\n<p><em>God&#8217;s Not Dead 2\u00a0<\/em>will again feature a story based on Christians standing up for their faith in a culture that is trying desperately to take their rights away. The action will take place in a court room, where a Christian teacher (Melissa Joan Hart) is forced before a judge for answering a student&#8217;s question about the similarities of Jesus&#8217; teachings to those of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandi. Hart&#8217;s character not only has to worry about her teaching position, but all those outside the courtroom trying to mark her as an example of how God should be removed from the public schools for good.<\/p>\n<p>The cast has a star studded line-up, including Hart (Melissa &amp; Joey),\u00a0Jesse Metcalfe\u00a0<em>(Dallas)<\/em>,\u00a0Hayley Orrantia\u00a0<em>(The Goldbergs),\u00a0<\/em>Ernie Hudson\u00a0<em>(Ghostbusters)<\/em>,\u00a0Sadie Robertson\u00a0<em>(Duck Dynasty),\u00a0<\/em>Robin Givens\u00a0<em>(Head of The Class)<\/em>, and\u00a0Maria Canals-Barrera<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>(Cristela).<\/em>\u00a0The late Fred Thompson<em>\u00a0<\/em>(<em>Law &amp; Order<\/em>) is also on the cast in one of his final film appearances<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Many actors from the original <em>God&#8217;s Not Dead<\/em> will also be returning, including Trisha LaFache (Amy Ryan), Benjamin Onyango\u00a0(Reverend Jude),\u00a0Paul Kwo (Martin Yip), and the\u00a0award-winning CCM group The\u00a0Newsboys\u00a0(Michael Tait, Duncan Phillips, Jeff Frankenstein, and Jody Davis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The follow-up to the most successful independent faith film of 2014 is finally here!\u00a0God&#8217;s Not Dead 2\u00a0will be hitting theaters on April 1, 2016 but you can get a sneak peak of the upcoming film above in the new trailer just released. 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