Hopeful Uncertainties

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A rant is as good as a prayer. Jason Cord is wounded while serving in Vietnam. He reaches out to God and hears nothing. He marries Jeanie, life is good until she is diagnosed with a brain tumor and suffers a stroke. His loss turns to anger. He puts God on trial and finds God guilty of indifference to human suffering. He sends rants heavenward. God ignores him. Captain Matt Parris returns from Iraq, his faith clouded in regrets and guilt. He is dying from cancers that decimate his body, but not his soul. He struggles to find a rock on which to anchor his drifting faith and the courage to confront his doubts. Jason, Matt's high school American Government teacher a decade earlier, becomes the executor of Matt's will and his caregiver. They share their thoughts and reservations about God and faith which becomes the cornerstone of an unlikely friendship. Jason's teaching career is coming to a close. He struggles against the smothering edicts in No Child Left Behind, high stakes bubble tests replacing critical thinking. Matt speaks to Jason's American Government class addressing Dominion Theology. Jason is suspended from teaching for insubordination, violating the First Amendment Establishment Clause, and lacking pedagogical judgment. He requests a public hearing before a hostile school board. The suspension/termination hearing brings into focus Jason's struggle with a public education system promoting rote learning and obedience, and his belief that students need to be taught how to think critically. Matt confronts his father's extreme Dominion beliefs and the gap that has grown between them. It is the honest struggle to understand mystery that fuses together Jason and Matt's friendship and reveals who they are and their hopeful uncertainties.