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This is not a sad story. This is a story about coming back to life.
A documentary on faith, loss, and how to continue living in wonder.
Follow the life of the remarkable Princeton historian, Elaine Pagels.
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"A beautiful, searching film that reflects on faith not as certainty, but as an expression of our deep human longing for meaning."
— KEN BURNS
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About Elaine
Elaine Pagels has spent more than forty years teaching at Princeton, and her career traces back to a discovery that reshaped how we understand early Christianity: a cache of secret gospels unearthed at Nag Hammadi in 1945, hidden from public view for nearly two thousand years. She joined the international team that first translated them — and her book on the find, The Gnostic Gospels, won the National Book Award. She retired from teaching in 2024. Her newest book, Miracles and Wonder, is her most personal yet: a lifetime spent inside humanity's oldest questions about loss, faith, and wonder.
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