Every year, The Gospel Coalition’s Brett McCracken releases a list of his “Best Movies” that he recommends for Christians to watch. Unfortunately, the list has become increasingly inappropriate and offensive over the years, with a disturbing trend of including movies that contain graphic sex scenes, violence, nudity, swearing, and even blasphemy. Last year’s list was no exception, with a disturbing array of films that were filled with this type of offensive and inappropriate content. And unfortunately, it seems that this year’s list will top even that, with even higher expectations for the level of foul and ungodly content that will be included.

Sometimes, I feel like TGC puts out material that’s so awful and ungodly that it has to be bait for their critics. I mean, this stuff is just absolutely apostate on every level. Nobody who truly knows God or the Scriptures could actually walk away from these movies feeling, as McCracken describes them, “edified.” But then, again, I remember that this is Brett McCracken and TGC that we’re talking about here.

It’s rather obscene that TGC’s Best Movies of 2022 list includes films with graphic sex scenes, abortion and feminist propaganda, violence, and R-rated films filled with blasphemous foul language. It’s no surprise, though, considering TGC has relatively little to do with the gospel or biblical teachings. It’s devolved into a platform primarily for woke Evangelicals to disseminate whatever worldly influence they’re caught up in at the time into the Church.

The movie TÁR is a feminist propaganda #MeToo film that promotes the idea that using power and leadership to coerce someone into a sexual relationship is wrong, regardless of the person’s gender, sexuality, intelligence, or achievements. According to Common Sense Media, the movie includes scenes with nonsexual female nudity, a physical altercation, unsettling situations, wine drinking, prescription drug abuse, and strong language (including “s–t” and “f—ing”).

According to McCracken, though, “As I wrote in my lengthy review of the film in October, TÁR provides fodder for thinking about contemporary confusion about gender and human anthropology, social media’s revealing nature, cancel culture’s relationship with sin and forgiveness, life’s fundamental uncontrollability, the tragedy of the autonomous self, and more. Because, you know, the Bible doesn’t provide enough “fodder” for that.

The movie rates 4 out of 5 in both sex/nudity and language:

Next up is McCracken’s recommendation of the sci-fi movie, Nope. According to McCracken, “Jordan Peele’s third film is the best sort of sci-fi thriller” because “It keeps you guessing—not only in the “what will happen next” sense but in the “what does this all mean” sense.”

According to McCracken, “Peele prompts us to think about sin, spectacle, and the idea of divine wrath.” Because, once again, we need to fill our heads with images of violence, drugs, and blasphemy. According to Common Sense Media:

Many uses of “f–k” and “s–t,” plus “motherf—-r,” “a–hole,” “bitch,” “ass,” “g-dd–n,” “damn,” “d–k,” “pissed off,” “shut up,” “stupid.”

And, apparently, one violent scene includes “An unstable chimp covered in blood bashes a child’s face (off-screen); child’s feet are seen as she lies unconscious. Kids in peril. Chimp shot with bullet from behind (blood spurt). Blood smears, spatters. Character’s eye hit with projectile: blood spurts, gory wound. Lots of blood “raining” from sky above, running down windows of house.”

Sounds exactly like what a Bible-believing Christian should be filling his head with while laid out in front of the television, right?

Next up, McCracken recommends another R-rated movie. This one rates 5 out of 5 on the sex and nudity scale. According to Common Sense Media, the movie, The Worst Person in the World includes:

Nudity is shown on a number of occasions — including full frontal male nudity and topless female nudity. Sexual intercourse and oral sex are portrayed on-screen. There is passing mention of female orgasm, premature ejaculation, anal sex, incest, rape, and the #MeToo movement.

The movie is also filled with graphic violence and language that is geared toward some of the most grotesque sexual violence imaginable to man. But, apparently, The Gospel Coalition is fine with Brett McCracken recommending this to millions of Christian readers. According to McCracken, “Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World may be the best film ever made about millennial angst.” Somehow, he seems to always forget to mention the sex, violence, and graphic language in these films when he recommends them to Christians.

And, of course, there are other movies he recommends including the R-rated Montana Story which is filled with strong language and blasphemies. In fact, several more of these movies and other movies not mentioned here contain other graphic scenes including the glorification of violence, drugs and alcohol, and blasphemous foul language. But it should go without argument that the sexual and nude scenes in these movies are not meant for the eyes of Christians. To argue, as McCracken does, that these movies “captivate audiences because they’re artistically excellent” and “are all in some way edifying—depicting goodness, truth, or beauty in ways Christian viewers can celebrate” is biblical ignorance. The gospel is not rated R, but The Gospel Coalition, apparently, is.